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(Later that evening hay fever seemed to get the best of me and I had a poor weekend. I was mystified as to the cause. The pendulum told me I reacted to the group Friday evening. However I had never reacted to the Wilburs before, so I was still puzzled.

Now such associations have an electrical reality, you see, built within your system. Realization of these causes creates an opposing force that can neutralize the original. The words—“Father, I refuse to accept your hay fever for myself; though I once took it, I now throw it free from us both”—these words will help.

You are not helping your father, for the symptoms will not revert to him. Your system will simply reorganize the energy pattern. There was another element. Your mother treated you as hers exclusively. You also adopted the symptoms as a protective measure against her. You said in effect, “I am my father’s son, down to some of his defects.”

Hay fever was for your father also a defense against the world, for it allowed him some isolation. You can have the necessary privacy without using this symptom to get it. The ink has a symbolic association for you personally, a healing one you see, and its presence, according to my recommendation, has the effect of a mood tonic.

(“The words ‘A fine form of a woman’.” Jane says this is a clear-enough reference to a remark Dick made when the group of three was sitting in the yard with their drinks, on the evening Jane wrote the poem used as object. Barbara asked Dick why he shouldn’t get married. Dick replied there was no reason he should, since he now sat with “two fine women,” both of them good looking; or words to that effect.

The interruption did cause poor reception for the envelope data. Under the circumstances however it was adequate.