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[...] There were cultural reasons connected here also, but the people in the society were taught to rely upon the priests, so that that authority became substituted for deep individual reliance upon the self.

(With broad humor, eyes wide and dark:) Your friendly cosmic author will now begin dictation.

Christ uses parables that were applicable then (as described in all four of the Gospels). He used priests as symbols of authority (Matthew 21:23–27). He turned water into wine (John 2:1–11), yet many who consider themselves quite holy ignore Christ at the wedding feast and think any alcoholic beverage degrading.

[...] Church was the authority, and the individual lived out his or her life almost automatically structuring personal experience so that it fit within the accepted norm.

[...] In your society there is no such overall authority. [...]

[...] If our words could not convince him, or his own understanding grasp the truth, then you had the “truth” uttered with all the medical profession’s authority—and if once a doctor had told him years ago how excellent was his hearing, the medical profession now told him that his slowness [his thyroid deficiency], helped impair his hearing to an alarming degree. [...]

[...] Now: We are going to resume dictation on our book, so (humorously to Carl) you can see an author at work — an authentic ghost writer if you prefer.

[...] Now, since I am also going to be an author you must look upon me with some awe. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Let me emphasize the author’s point: state your goals. [...]

[...] You have come to see an author at work, and so we shall continue, if you will bear with us, with Chapter Two.

[...] The same sort of inner calculations would have been involved by the author of the book. [...]

[...] (In sleeping.) His performance last evening showed however a greater participation of the overly conscientious self in the psychic work, showing itself as authority and confidence. [...]

Behind such announcements there is the authority of the medical profession, and the very authority of your systems of communication as well. [...]

[...] The “authorities” aren’t going to pay any attention.)

[...] These are not authority figures putting Ruburt down, or our work. [...]

(10:08.) There are periods in which it certainly seems to some that all standards vanish, and so they yearn for old authorities. [...]

[...] They had to do with inspiration, Jane’s attitudes toward me as an authority figure, and so forth. [...]

[...] The psychiatrist’s letter (Dr. Beahrs) represents but one communication, but many others read the material and use it, and do not write you, any more than you write to other authors. [...]

(Long pause.) Actually, in several places in previous books, I did indeed describe negative suggestion and its utilization by the medical authorities under the name of preventative medicine. [...]

A man like Le Cron (author of Self-Hypnotism: The Technique and Its Use in Daily Living, copyright 1964, published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) will recommend a reliable hypnotist. [...]

[...] Le Cron (Leslie Le Cron, author of Self Hypnotism) was a help at a time when he needed to reexamine his past.

[...] Ruburt for example feels obligated to tell correspondents with health difficulties to see the established authorities, certainly those with serious illnesses. [...]