Table Of ContentPRAISE FOR THE SETH BOOKS
"The Seth books present an alternate map of reality with a new diagram of
the psyche .. . useful to all explorers of consciousness."
— Deepak Chopra, M.D.
author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of
Success and Creating Affluence
"Seth was one of my first metaphysical teachers. He remains a constant
source of knowledge and inspiration in my life."
— Marianne Williamson
author of A Return to Love
"I would like to see the Seth books as required reading for anyone on
their spiritual pathway. The amazing in-depth information in the Seth
books is as relevant today as it was in the early '70s when Jane Roberts
first channeled this material."
— Louise Hay
author of You Can Heal Your Life
"As you read Seth's words, you will gain more than just new ideas. Seth's
energy comes through every page, energy that expands your
consciousness and changes your thoughts about the nature of reality."
— Sanaya Roman
author of Living with foy
"The Seth books were of great benefit to me on my spiritual journey and
helped me to see another way of looking at the world."
— Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.
author of Love is Letting Go of Fear
"To my great surprise — and slight annoyance — I found that Seth
eloquently and lucidly articulated a view of reality that I had arrived at
only after great effort and an extensive study of both paranormal
phenomena and quantum physics...."
— Michael Talbot
author of The Holographic Universe and
Beyond the Quantum
BOOKS BY JANE ROBERTS
The Rebellers (1963)
The Coming ofSeth (How to Develop Your ESP Power) (1966)
TheSeth Material (1970)
Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul {1912)^
The Education of Oversoul Seven (1973)**
The Nature of Personal Reality. A Seth Book (1974)*
Adventures in Consciousness (1975)
Dialogues of The Soul and Mortal Selfin Time (1975)
Psychic Politics: A n Aspect Psychology Book (1976)
The World View of Paul Czanne:A Psychic Interpretation (1977)
The AfterdeathJournal of an American Philosopher: The World View of
William James (1978)
The Unknown Reality. A Seth Book Volume 1 (1977)**
The Unknown Reality. A Seth Book Volume 2 {1979)**
The Further Education of Oversoul Seven (1979)**
Emir s Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979)
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. A Seth Book (1979)**
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. A Seth Book (1981) **
The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981)
If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love (1982)
Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time (1984)
Dreams, Evolution, & Value Ful llment. A Seth Book Vol. 1 (1986)**
Dreams, Evolution, & ValueFul llment. A Seth Book Vol.2{ 1986)**
Seth, Dreams, and Projection of Consciousness (1986)
The Magical Approach. A Seth Book (1995)
The Way Toward Health. A Seth Book (1997)
* New editions co-published by Amber-Allen / New World Library, 1994 and 1995.
** New editions published by Amber-Allen Publishing, 1995,1996, and 1997.
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TOWARD
HEALTH
FOREWORD AND EPILOGUE BY ROBERT F. BUTTS
AMBER
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AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING
SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA
Copyright © 1997 by Robert F. Butts
Published by Amber-Allen 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
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part
without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who
may quote brief passages in a review; nor may any part of this book be
reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by
any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other,
without written permission from the publisher.
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.
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Robert F Butts . vii
PART ONE: DILEMMAS 1
Chapter 1 The Purpose of This Book, and Some
Important 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, and
Medical Technology 152
Chapter 5 Suggestion and Health 167
Chapter 6 "States of Health and Disease" 186
Chapter 7 The State of Childhood in Relationship
to 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
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V1 CONTENTS
PART TWO: STARTING OVER 245
Chapter 10 A New Beginning. Instructions, Suggestions, and
Resolutions — 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 Disease
in 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 Christian
Soldiers, and the Human Body as a Planet
Worth Saving 309
Epilogue by Robert E Butts 362
Index 365
FOREWORD
T
he 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. I've long wanted to see it published while feel-
ing, knowing, that it has much else to offer, too. Not only about Jane's
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, I've learned, don't 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 cre-
ative in ways that are both known and, I'm sure now, unknown.
Ah, there's 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 wife's 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 we've created! Even so, I
think, ultimately we come to understand, whether on conscious or
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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 she'd been hospitalized since
February 1982. Since her death many have written to both sympathize
and to ask "Why?" She had Seth, didn't 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 hadn't 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, I'm sure. They're 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 join-
ing 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 Jane's life shows this, and in ways that nei-
ther 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
