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He responds to the totality of stimuli that reaches him, regardless of the way in which any given stimuli is received. Quite adequate protection here can be given if he gives the daily suggestion that he will only react to constructive suggestions.

Some symptoms are indeed caused by telepathic knowledge. He reacts to it as he reacts to other information. Personal associations are generated, and so forth. The affair with Muriel was known to him, though again he is not consciously convinced. (Muriel is the daughter of Marian and Jimmy.)

He will automatically react to such information whether or not he consciously admits that he receives it. Ignorance is no excuse, for I have told him. The whole psychic development can and should, and was meant, to provide exactly what was needed, and its timing was no accident.

In Ruburt’s years with Zeh, there was severe splitting of the personality. It is not a new thing with him to push aside the subconscious at all. In all cases when he does, an explosion of one kind occurs. His subconscious intuitive self, you see, is extremely vital, alive, and unusually insistent for expression, even for the subconscious which is known for this.

His ego however is also very strong. His mother taught him to be extremely fearful of his subconscious, and the rigid ego became a protection from it and her. As he grew older he thought of the ego as a balancing agent against an inner spontaneous self that always, it seemed, got him into trouble. Now I would like to continue here, but I imagine your hands are tired.

Then, the strong conflict between the ego and subconscious was the result of home environment. He allowed himself no spontaneous expression at home with his mother. This denied, his normal spontaneity exploded when it was allowed opportunity, sometimes in unfortunate circumstances. In panic, the ego then tripled its defenses. He was not capable of loving Zeh or anyone, later. They both knew this and counted upon it. With Zeh, again, Ruburt denied the spontaneous self in normal daily interaction with him; with Zeh. And this denied spontaneous self exploded when and where it could.

Understanding of these conflicts will go a long way to ease the symptoms. The stiff neck, when it occurs—the neck quite literally expresses the rigidity of attitude. It is easier for him to withdraw than it appears. In this case, however, the subconscious recognized the danger and symbolically expressed through the organism, the ego’s intent. The symptoms therefore were therapeutic in nature, in that their purpose was the solving of the dilemma.

He reacts favorably to the color green as I told him. It has a healing quality for him. The cod-liver oil should not be renewed, although he was told it is a protection against arthritis; the word itself operates with each dose in a negative way.