Health and being

Thursday, April 10, 2025

5:30 a.m. So, Jon, if you have a topic, I have the pen in hand.

Notice in print what you just noticed in thought.

I surprised myself, realizing that I had written more than a page here, not noticing that I do not have my glasses. This, despite the fact that my vision is getting worse. It suggests that our physical ailments aren’t quite what they seem, but are in some way a combination of psychology with the physiology. That’s putting it only vaguely. You were a doctor: How does it look to you now from your new perspective?

It is time for you and others to begin to put together various hints that you have stored in different compartments. Faith healing, miracle cures, psychosomatic illness, homeopathy, all the various kinds of “crank” cures, energy medicine, prayer, the quirks of genetics (that is, the inexplicable exceptions and immunities), plagues, what may be called generational illnesses – widespread maladies of one age that more or less disappear in another, and were more or less out of the blue to begin with. Put all these hints together with the thought that all is one, that you in 3D all resonate with one another and with the times. Remember that beneath all appearances is consciousness, or call it universal mind.

Mix well, particularly mix with some active thinking, some active interacting, and see what you get.

I in particular?

Everyone is “in particular,” and everyone’s answer is going to be as different from everyone else’s as each is different in soul, or call it in psychological essence. But yes, here you in particular. That’s all we have to work with. Other pens at other times can get what you miss and may miss what you can get. That’s always so.

Well, at any rate this is a promising start. Let’s see. Immediately I get what I have always believed. Hell, as a boy I knew it (and have never ceased to know it): if I only had the key, I could in effect reach out and adjust something and I wouldn’t have to deal with asthma anymore. But I could never find the thing to be adjusted, let alone the key to adjust it with.

Do you think so? Isn’t that your whole life’s pursuit?

I suppose. For one thing, I learned that sincerely desiring isn’t the same as acquiring, yet that it has its own rewards in its effect on your course. But this is too pat an answer. What are you getting at? You spent years dealing with kidney failure, and dialysis, and transplants, so you know.

Ah, but what is the main difference between you and me?

Attitudinally?

Don’t search, let it emerge.

You knew so much more about the physical mechanism of the body than I did or do. I think it reinforced a certain set of limitations in what you saw as possible, like Bruce Moen after his stroke, convinced that healing could come only in one way, which of course it then did.

It’s an important point – though not central today as a theme – that too much knowledge of specifics may have the side-effect of imprisoning you in that way of seeing things. Ideally you would learn as much detail as you could, but without losing the knowledge that the system you were studying was one way to see it, with its particular advantages and disadvantages, its unique opportunities for insight and its unique blindnesses. Ideally you could be a homeopath and an osteopath and an allopath and a faith healer and a voodoo witch doctor, all at the same time. And of course even such a broadly ranging combination would have its invisible limits on what it could do, limits imposed by what it allowed for.

I see that. In 3D we can never get a full view of anything, because we always have to have a viewpoint – hence, a perspective, hence a vanishing point, hence a systemic distortion.

And that’s why everybody looks at everybody else’s system and says, “That’s great, except for –“.

I remember years ago reading Buckminster Fuller saying he realized as a young man that everybody’s viewpoint was limited by their experience of life.

So to return to the main point here, nobody is fated by anything external. Everybody’s limitations and constraints and opportunities and advantages are sealed in. Your character is your fate, somebody said. [It was Emerson.] Well, your character is also your escape route, if you know how to use it.

That doesn’t mean we can get perfect health.

Who says?

A lifetime’s experience, for one.

Your interpretation of a lifetime’s experience, and, at that, a lifetime’s experience so far.

But if we spend a lifetime looking for what we don’t find, what does that prove but that perhaps it isn’t there to be found?

Since when do you doubt that kind of inner knowing that the boy had and that you still have? Particularly when it is inexplicable and contrary to common sense?

All right, I get that we usually pose the wrong question. We think, how can I get rid of this or that?

Yes, and what should you ask?

More like, How can I cease to be the person with this or that, and be something else?

Now, a recent example in your life, PTSD. It is clearly a psychosomatic illness, involving mind as well as body. (But then, what illness isn’t?) Any body worker can tell you how specific memories can be held in body tissue, only to release when that tissue is physically manipulated. Why should that be, if a psychosomatic illness were only in the mind? But maybe it isn’t as simple as it appears. Suppose all illness is psychosomatic, and is as much in the mind as in the body.

I’m thinking of the model I worked out years ago and put into Imagine Yourself Well. I said what you are saying.

Only, your bias is so much toward the mental – the psychic – that it undervalues the “merely” physical. You saw one-half the opportunity, you might say. You are plenty open to the possibility of miracles – but not if they require physical intervention as well!

Laughing. It sounds pretty ridiculous, when you put it that way.

Actually, not ridiculous, but certainly not balanced, not common-sensical. It is the hardest thing, to marry common sense and higher sense.

Particularly when we’re caught between – or maybe I should say when we’re balancing between – two belief systems.

Actually, in your case and in many others, you are living among atomized belief systems, a little of this, a little of that, because you are living in the time between ages: not yet the Age of Aquarius, not quite still the Age of Pisces. (These are analogies, but productive ones.)

So, practically –?

Practically, try to be aware of what you do – the way you live – that puts obstacles in the way of perfect health. This isn’t a matter of belief, or all of Mary Baker Eddy’s followers would enjoy perfect health. It isn’t a matter of specific diet or regimen, or everybody would know just what to do and could do it by rote, on automatic pilot. It isn’t a matter of aspiration, even or – well, that’s a different topic that in fact we might profitably pursue, but not as an afterthought.

Could you have overcome your kidney failures?

You don’t know what you are asking. It’s like saying could Jane Roberts have risen from her bed, as Seth assured her she could. If someone asked you, could you overcome asthma, what would you be obliged by truth to say?

I’d say, yes, I believe I should be able to, but I haven’t found the key.

And I would say, “Not that you spent much time looking.” And I would say it of myself, and of Jane Roberts, and probably of nearly everybody who ever reads this.

And if we don’t know how to look?

That’s another topic in itself, and this is enough for now. Are you satisfied to be back in action?

I am. And I get the sense that addressing you – or anyone else – specifically, increases my chances of connection..

Which is why mediums used to have to use “controls” – specific spirit guides – in denser times. But you have lived into lighter days; take advantage of the new opportunities.

Thanks, Jon. Today’s theme?

You might call it “Health and being.” The title will make more sense to you later.

Okay. Again, thanks.