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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

I first heard from my unseen correspondent, Valerie Wood, not long after Jane had died thirteen months ago. I sent her one of the cards I’d had printed, giving a few details about Jane’s death and stating my determination to carry on with our work. Valerie responded with some poetry relative to Jane’s passing, and my reactions to her death, that I interpreted at once as being very evocative of Jane and me. At the time I didn’t know what to believe about the source of the material, even while I found it reinforcing my own contacts with Jane. Were Valerie’s messages from her own subconscious? From Jane’s world view? From Jane herself?

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 6 tree bark Malba Rob midplane

When your own personalities are more or less in balance, you have no trouble at all looking out for these creatures and actually reinforcing their existence with residues of your creative and sympathetic powers. In times of psychological stressor in periods of crisesquite unwittingly you often withhold this strong reinforcement. [...]

[...] In the case of the first cat, you were able to reinforce its strength and maintain its health for some time. [...] The second cat barely enjoyed such reinforcement at all and quickly succumbed. [...]

[...] They have their own, it is true, but, unknowingly, you reinforce their energy and health.

[...] I would like to make it clear that animals do have energy to maintain their own health, but this is reinforced as a rule by the vitality of the human beings to whom they may be emotionally attached. [...]