Jane Roberts - The Way Toward Health: A Seth Book

Copyright 1997 by Robert F. Butts

Published by Amber-Alien Publishing, Inc.
P.O. Box 6657
San Rafael, CA 94903

Cover Art: Robert F. Butts
Cover Design: Beth Hansen
Editorial: Janet Mills
Typography: Rick Gordon, Emerald Valley Graphics

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Seth (Spirit)
The way toward health / [channeled by] Jane Roberts; foreword and notes by Robert F. Butts,
p. cm. (A Seth book)
Includes index.
I. Health. 2. Spirit writings. I. Roberts, Jane, 1929-1984.
II. Title. III. Series: Seth (Spirit). Seth book.
613 DC21 97-18255
CIP
ISBN 978-1-878424-30-3

Printed in U.S.A. on acid-free paper

Distributed by Hay House, Inc.

Front Cover
Title Page
Foreword by Robert F Butts vii

Chapter 1 The Purpose of This Book, and SomeImportant Comments About Exuberance and Health 3
Chapter 2 Biologically Valid Thoughts, Attitudes,and Beliefs 64
Chapter 3 Daredevils, Death-Defiers, and Health 139
Chapter 4 The Broken-Hearted, the Heartless, andMedical Technology 152
Chapter 5 Suggestion and Health 167
Chapter 6 "States of Health and Disease" 186
Chapter 7 The State of Childhood in Relationshipto Health, and Hints for Parents 213
Chapter 8 Childrens' Play, Reincarnation, and Health 226
Chapter 9 You, You, You, and You. Living at Cross Purposes 235 Chapter 10 A New Beginning. Instructions, Suggestions, andResolutions and When to Ignore These 247
Chapter 11 Starting Over From the Bottom Upward.The Will to Live 261
Chapter 12 Early Instances of Death or Diseasein Relationship to Further Reincarnational Influences 283
Chapter 13 "Messages" from Gods, Demons, Heroes,and Other Prominent Persons or, More Conflicting Beliefs 299
Chapter 14 Nirvana, Right is Might, Onward ChristianSoldiers, and the Human Body as a Planet Worth Saving 309
Epilogue by Robert E Butts 362
Back Cover
Books by the Authors
The Way Toward Health is more than an account of the stay and death of my wife, Jane Roberts, in a hospital in Elmira, New York, just 13 years ago. Ive long wanted to see it published while feeling, knowing, that it has much else to offer, too. Not only about Janes fine ability to speak in a trance or dissociated state for Seth, that energy personality essence, as he calls himself, but about all of the vastly complicated challenges that can, and do, arise in the course of a human life.

Our lives, Ive learned, dont simply proceed nicely and directly from birth to death. Instead, I see each one of us as traveling a most curious and branching-out or circuitous route, one that is creative in ways that are both known and, Im sure now, unknown.

Ah, theres the challenge, then to understand our inherent creativity. We can try to mold it, to make it conform or behave, but each life has a life of its own. How fortunate! My wifes life and work show that we can even create challenges and goals before birth, then in physical life plunge into fulfilling those qualities as we don flesh and clothing and beliefs. Yet what great, unexpected convolutions we can encounter in those challenges weve created! Even so, I think, ultimately we come to understand, whether on conscious or unconscious levels or both that we were utterly ourselves while learning along the way.

Jane died in the hospital at 2:08 a.m. on Wednesday, September 5, 1984, after being there, quite helpless in certain ways, for a year and nine months. It was the third time shed been hospitalized since February 1982. Since her death many have written to both sympathize and to ask Why? She had Seth, didnt she for whom she spoke for some 21 years; she also produced six books with him along the way (plus a number of books on her own). Why hadnt Seth gotten her out of her dilemma, turned the magic key in the proper psychic lock? She was only 55 years old when she died. She could have lived for another 20 years, say, and contributed even more to our knowledge, both with Seth and by herself. She could have become world famous had she chosen to go that route.

The answers to such questions that Jane, Seth, and I arrived at are in this book. Jane was a human being first, and a very gifted psychic second. Seth did help her, many many times over the years. Beyond that, Jane and I learned that there exist great realms of knowledge and feeling as yet largely unrevealed. It would have been even finer to tap into those wondrous mazes much more, but we did the best we could. Seth still helps my wife, Im sure. Theyre united now, and in larger terms also meeting with many others they know from the past, present, and future. Because of certain dreams I believe that even portions of my own entity (Seth calls me Joseph) are joining in. Well, why not, since as Seth describes reality, everything exists at the same time? Tricky concepts and questions to wrestle with, I know, and sometimes contradictory. Enough to last for a lifetime in just this mundane reality.

I think this book shows, then, that the ways toward health can and do vary tremendously. In some stubborn and psychically grounded way we each are going to make our own choices, as human beings always have. Surely Janes life shows this, and in ways that neither of us were even remotely aware of consciously when we married 42 years ago.

During those 21 months in the hospital, Jane, Seth, and I said much about her physical/psychic condition, and I recorded it all in my homemade shorthand as best I could under often very stressful conditions. In all that time I missed spending up to six or more hours a day with my wife only once, because of a heavy snowstorm. For weeks after her admittance in April, I didnt know if Jane would ever do any psychic work again, but three months later she surprised me by beginning a series of dialogues similar to the worldview material shed produced for her books on the psychologist and philosopher William James, and the artist Paul Cezanne. Once again, she was inspired by my questions on art and related matters. At least I feel Im doing something Im made for, she said when starting the new project. She concluded it in September 1983, then over the next four months delivered a series of 71 mostly short, mostly personal Seth sessions. She finished that series on January 2, 1984 and began The Way Toward Health the next day.

During all of this time, we told no one in the hospital what we were specifically doing staff accepted our conventional explanation that we were writers and just working. It all worked very well, even when we were often interrupted, as the sessions show.

Inevitably, however, much had to be omitted from The Way Toward Health as its presented here not Seths material, but from Janes and my work and notes. I owe a great deal to the very considerate help of Janet Mills, the proprietor of Amber-Alien Publishing. We saw that if all of the peripheral material for each session was included, the book would be very long. (I had a number of personal experiences and insights that I thought enhanced concepts of the Seth material, for example.) But what to cut, when to stop? This presented a dilemma for me.