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The attitude even of doctors and nurses toward the handling of such patients shows only too clearly not only their fear of the disease itself, but their fear of homosexuality, which has been considered evil and forbidden by many religions. Emotions run at top pace in such cases, and the AIDS patients are often shunted away, out of human society. Often even their friends desert them. Yet AIDS can be acquired by those who are not homosexuals, but who have similar problems. (Long pause.) It is a great error to segregate some individuals, like some modern colony of lepers.

Before health problems show up there is almost always a loss of self-respect or expression. This loss may occur in the environment itself, in changing social conditions. In the matter of the disease called AIDS, for example, you have groups of homosexuals, many “coming out of the closet” for the first time, taking part in organizations that promote their cause, and suddenly faced by the suspicions and distrust of many other portions of the population.

(3:35.) These beliefs break down the immunity system, and bring about the symptoms so connected with the disease. AIDS is a social phenomenon to that extent, expressing the deep dissatisfactions, doubts, and angers of a prejudiced-against segment of society.

Whatever physical changes occur, happen because the will to live is weakened. AIDS is a kind of biological protest, as if symbolically the homosexuals are saying: “You may as well kill us. We might be better off than the way you treat us now,” or as if it were a kind of suicidal drama in which the messages read: “See to what ends your actions have led us!”

(Last night, she estimated, her temperature had been 101 at 8:00, 101 at 11:00, and 101 at 3:00 a.m. At breakfast time it had been 99.3. After lunch it was 102.1. “Not bad,” the male aide who took it said.

[...] Jane remembered to tell me that last night two students had watched as an aide checked her catheter and Foley. [...]

(I couldn’t help noticing as I walked down the hall on my way out, how busy all the patient rooms were, the cacophony of sounds, the numerous visitors, patients and nurses and aides. [...]

[...] Form, like time, is an aid, an organization of experience. Form is used as time structures may be used, but multidimensional personalities know that they construct form as they may construct various time systems as an aid toward organizing perception.

[...] Any time structure is an aid, organizing experience along certain lines. [...]

[...] You will then still organize experience (underline organize), but you will not need artificial aids such as time to lean upon. [...]

[...] These various portions will be able to help each other and to aid in development. [...]

[...] Jane was telling me that an aide who took care of her this morning, and who is living apart from her husband and has three kids, looked at a second-hand washing machine this noon but couldn’t afford the $130 cost. [...] As though on signal, the aide came in to empty Jane’s Foley, and we explained our idea to her. [...]

[...] I got two night-shift aides to help me get the chuck out from under her, and we gradually got her more comfortable. [...]

Cyprus was correct, and in the terms used Sumari physicians then are aiding in Ruburt’s recovery. [...]

The physicians aid by giving precise overall directions to the body consciousness, simply facilitating healing, and directing energy—they are artists in their field. [...]

[...] You are aided and abetted, of course, because of previous beliefs of society, where illness is a quite acceptable method of procedure, where it is considered normal. [...]

It worked for a while as a way of avoiding distractions, but the personality no longer needs such artificial “aids.”

[...] Jane continues to improve in her walking—she’s up to 12 times daily, with the aid of her typing table—so we seemed to have retreated from the prospect of her becoming so inactive that she stopped getting on her feet. [...]

[...] The nurses and aides were raising hell this morning with their jokes and tricks. [...]

[...] It is true, however, that many cancers and conditions such as AIDS result because the immunity system has been so tampered with that the body has not been allowed to follow through with its own balancing procedures.

Again, however, no individual dies of cancer or AIDS, or any other condition, until they themselves have set the time.

Now some personalities from one system aid other personalities within other systems, but highly developed personalities, those in your terms so far advanced, will set for themselves the task of aiding an entire civilization; of assisting the development of a new system, and sometimes initiating the existence of that system.

[...] Now you are aiding in the development of those consciousnesses that compose the cells and molecules within your own bodies.

[...] He will not overdo, for in this his ego is an aid and it will see to it that over-exertion does not occur. [...]

[...] You must not consider psychic endeavor as a rival to your art, but instead as an aid, with which the best of artists have always been blessed. [...]

[...] I commented aloud to Jane about how I thought that I had been using my psychic abilities in my paintings, quite consciously and deliberately as a most welcome aid.

It is an example of the way in which his abilities came to his aid, giving him inner assurances when they were most needed. [...]

Not only then do you have a manufactured crisis of one minor variety or another, but Ruburt is expected or expects his body to execute the steps, walk without the table or any other aid, and behave entirely differently, and of course better, than he does inside the house. Neither of you would even think of a chair in the garage; any aid would be a copout. [...]

[...] Finally he felt the impulse to walk without the table, used the plunger as an aid, and did not need to put his weight upon it. [...]

[...] Yet, aids in the garage also were considered copouts.

[...] They will aid you both. [...]

The cue points began to break up of themselves, and your anticipated activities will further aid in their deterioration. [...]

[...] They are a physical aid now to a process already begun.

[...] The muscles are to be encouraged, and the liniment is fine as an aid. [...]

[...] I met a couple of new nurses or aides myself. [...]

(After a few minutes, Jane said the dream could have been related to the injuries the nurse’s aide had suffered to her own impaired leg — the one that had been stapled inside that I described in a recent session. [...]

[...] As convenient aids you will find yourselves imagining, for example, open windows through which you will seem to travel. This is an aid to the ego only. [...]

[...] At times these personalities do aid their own and give instructions.

[...] Again, good and evil and the freedom of choice came to the species’ aid. [...] It would aid in understanding the later myths and the variations that came from them. [...]

[...] Good and evil, the desirable and the less so, were invaluable aids then in helping form the basis for such separations.

(4:35 — I pressed the button for aide. [...]

[...] Have him continue the practice as he began it—it aids in understanding beliefs, and it does alter the past and therefore the present.

[...] These are aids only.

[...] These are simply aids that will later be unnecessary.

[...] A new aide asked for tomorrow’s menu, which I’d left on the medicine tray in the hall, as usual. [...]

We will have more to say concerning older people and their ways of life, and also discuss the many beliefs and ideas that can come almost immediately to their aid. [...]

[...] Semidarkness merely aids in dissociation and concentration, and the lessening of camouflage data is helpful.

Various people will of course be of aid or a hindrance. [...]

[...] These are merely aids.

[...] No sooner did we find that out than one of the two aides returned to take more blood — they “want all they can get,” Jane swore. The aide apologized. [...]