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Your understanding of those issues can help remind him, and your reassurance there is most beneficial. In our sessions he lets himself alone, and in class and with Sumari, and with poetry. He knows what that feeling is. Tell him to let his body alone in the same fashion. It might take a bit before he understands what that means enough to practice it, but he can understand.
Give us a moment.... He has been over-suggesting again, particularly at nap time—at himself too much. The morning and evening suggestions should be given, and as mentioned in the last session. Beyond that he should leave himself alone—as far as specific suggestions are concerned.
When he finds himself thinking that he cannot walk properly, have him at least recognize the thought, as a thought and belief. That brief recognition alone will give him a moment of reflection. The reflection will automatically set up a gap of time in which he is not acting automatically in response to the negative suggestion.
This does not mean that you must forever remain in ignorance, but it does mean that there are different kinds of knowledge, and that all of your information does not come by reasoning alone. [...] The reasoning mind alone, however, cannot by itself grow even the smallest cell, or activate the life of even one molecule, yet the growth and maintenance of the body is constant.
When you become too serious you overwork your intellect and tire your body, for then it seems that your entire life depends upon the reasoning of your intellect alone. [...]
[...] The Sinful Self has no use for play, because it believes so fervently that left alone it will indeed be lazy or childish, or fritter itself away—or, looking at it the other way, it fears that left alone it will only play, or will be slothful. [...]
It seems under those conditions that only pessimism can be an adequate response, so that any private or global condition of an adverse nature, left alone, will further deteriorate. [...]
(Long pause at 8:53.) When it seems that left alone Ruburt’s condition will only worsen, you are following those old patterns of conditioned thought, projecting negative situations into the future, imagining the unfortunate outcome or outcomes, and acting as if you operated within a closed system. [...]
Even these, however, act as automatic learning devices, and left alone they themselves trigger the necessary creative procedures that would begin corrective measures. [...]
[...] As you mentioned following your parents’ deaths, there was a sense of aloneness. It is because Ruburt always felt that aloneness that he has in his own way tried to serve both of your purposes at the same time. (I felt bad for Jane’s aloneness.)
[...] Today I described the question in my mind as I fell asleep last night: With such a situation developing, why hadn’t she at least asked—let alone demanded—sessions, in order to find out what was going on? [...]
[...] They must somehow dwell alone and apart.
[...] The consciousness and creativity of one, while seeming alone, is not alone but is a threshold upon which others may rest, and a framework from which others may grow. [...]
(To Joel) Afterward I would like you to keep some appointment with the universe, quiet and private, not in psy-time necessarily, but alone for your own benefit. With Bill, through automatic writing or alone, and then do what you want with (words lost). [...]
[...] This experience alone would drive you to continue to ask your questions and seek for answers. [...]
Now those of you who have families, within that framework if you watch and listen, and you do, there are moments of unbearable and unspeakable agony as you recognize the aloneness of the human spirit in what seems to be an unfeeling universe. [...]
[...] Leonard lives alone, however, and though he has brothers and sisters, you thought of him as alone. The situation triggered many fears, about you and Ruburt being alone, your age, the age of your brothers, who would come to your aid, or Ruburt’s. If necessary, Leonard at least had a knowledge of the medical world, while you and Ruburt do not. [...]
[...] When he is alone and trying to be independent then people offer and he becomes dismayed. He used the last episode (on the back stairs) to trigger an important development in walking up the stairs, but he is not to imagine that everyone else is perfect because they look all right; then he deals with absolutes, becomes frightened, and exaggerates his condition, thinking in physical terms alone and forgetting those inner abilities of his, of creativity, that are indeed so important.
A dentist would shudder, and often surgical methods are used to correct such a condition, when, if left alone, and with changes in a person’s living situation, the condition would right itself. [...]
(Its very difficult for the practical world—for people who aren’t primarily “artists or creators” to deal with that sort of thing; they don’t know where to place it and ideas alone make them uncomfortable—they aren’t real or unreal according to their way of looking at reality.
(To remind the subconscious of its love for the natural world and walking alone or with Rob; being out in the elements. [...]
[...] (Smiling.) You must realize that you do not form events alone. [...] Usually then you alone are not responsible for an event, because others participate in its creation — for their own reasons. [...]