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Ruburt’s mood is such that it is rather difficult for me. However this will be over shortly. I will therefore begin with the letter you received from Ruburt’s friend.

The woman told the events of the trip to friends, then dreamed that night of the friends, and in this dream the woman retold these events. It was from this dream that Ruburt picked up the information connecting her friend with water.

In the friend’s dream Ruburt played a small part, and this served as a connective.

A note here, pertaining to a different matter. Ruburt read that electrons spring from pure energy, and after our discussions on the nature of matter this should come as no surprise.

I will now endeavor to answer Ruburt’s questions.

The regular typewriter should be used. There is no use for me upon this occasion to do anything more than state the circumstances, except of course to suggest that Ruburt does not dwell upon the irritation.

I would state furthermore that indeed Ruburt did have occasion to be angry at the chiropractor, since with an emotional fear unthinking suggestions such as his, made with only the flimsiest of evidence, can be most harmful and destructive. And in an unwary, emotionally upset personality, particularly if under stress, such a suggestion could cause a harmless and protective nodule to be changed by the strong powers of adverse expectation, or rather expectation poorly used, into the form of what is feared; as a slight but harmless irregularity of heartbeat, with the unthinking suggestion of a doctor, can become through the patient’s fears an actual functional disorder, so could suggestion turn a relatively harmless formation like Ruburt’s into an arthritic condition.

Despite Ruburt’s understanding, his intellectual understanding of his fear of arthritis, he was thrown into an understandable and regrettable emotional state, with which he grappled with at least some success. But you see here what under other circumstances could have been the final straw, so to speak, the word of authority that would say “Your fears are justified.” In such an instance and under certain conditions such an individual would have his deepest dreads, therefore, fastened upon him.

He would be convinced so of the diagnosis, that a disease that he might have escaped would be brought to physical manifestation. I am going into this clearly because the consequences that Ruburt escaped have often not been shaken off by others.

I am pleased that Ruburt has begun his psychological time experiments again. His results are better than they would have been if he had not heeded my advice and had continued demanding results from the subconscious.

I will return to the consideration of expectation and physical health, as from Ruburt’s specific situation there is much general knowledge to be gained.

I will also go into these matters more thoroughly, but Ruburt’s situation gave us an excellent occasion. It is always wise to take heed, in your own speech, of remarks made pertaining to health or physical appearance, for the higher in esteem you are held by others, the more authority will be given to your suggestions.

I will now close the session, feeling that I have done well in setting Ruburt right at any rate. My fond regards to you both.