If you’re game for some really sideways health, listen up.

A word of warning first for the fainthearted: if the whole concept of “channelling” freaks you out, turn away now.

Seth is what is described as a “non-physical personality essence” who was “channelled” by Jane Roberts in her New York apartment in years up to her death in 1984.

The extraordinary thing about Seth is how all-seeing, all-knowing and apparently all-understanding he was on so many subjects and aspects of life, death and even health.

The Way Toward Health makes the following very familiar points to supporters of sideways treatments:

1. Why medicine and therapy often perpetuate illness.
2. How the practice of naming diseases can work against us.
3. The influence of religion in creating disease.
4. How children’s health is influenced by parents’ beliefs.
5. Humour as an effective factor in healing.

There’s not much there that any self-respecting alternative therapist would disagree with, except, perhaps, the use of the word “therapy”.

If this rings your bell, the book is available at Amazon and other good bookstores.