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Illness in many ways is a learned response, and it follows patterns set up in the system having to do with memory banks, though we shall find a better word here.

Habitual illness will follow the lines of learned response and memory. Definite molecular substructures are formed biologically in response to inner electrical charges. The inner electrical charges are not a part of the physical system as such, you see. But they act within the physical structure, forming then definite changes in the RNA patterns.

There was some question in the article about long-term and short-term memory. Now basically the original intensity of the charge determines its duration in your time structure. The intensity of particular charges can completely reorganize the personality structure through changes in the RNA formations. (Long pause at 9:10.) Previous life memories, existing electronically and magnetically, may carry such intense charge that they superimpose themselves in the present physical structure, and form memory patterns quite alien to those of the present ego personality.

Once physical symptoms actually appear within this system however, they are to some extent accepted as any other established pattern, at least by a portion of the personality. In some cases physical symptoms can actually make up a somewhat independent supersonality structure. This is the case with many chronically-ill individuals. The destructive tendencies are collected about a particularly emotionally-charged group of reactions, and cut off from the dominant personality.

This would imply short-term memory you see, but this is not the case, for it is intensity and not duration that makes the difference. Once the symptoms become physical however, then they follow physical patterns, and it takes the physical system some time to heal usually, (underlined). In terms of intensity alone, both the foot and the hip symptoms were highly charged, representing of course degrees of immobility and withdrawal—learned, you see, from the mother: a memory reaction adopted without conscious thought.

Once symptoms are accepted they can return, for the memory pattern is never completely erased, but only bypassed. For various reasons having to do with past-life experiences, writing has become a structure within which the personality best operates. Psychic development has been welded onto this. As long as he faithfully and consistently follows these lines he will operate at maximum levels. When he falters he lets himself in for difficulties.