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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.)

Muriel left college without completing it and in disfavor, and so did Ruburt. The similarities alone made it easy for Ruburt to be sensitized on Muriel’s behalf and to clairvoyantly observe the illness. All of this added to the previous negative associations, and reinforced the existing symptoms, except that the identification was with the mother. Ruburt must understand that his abilities do include such clairvoyantly received data. The suggestion above should be given daily and as a matter of course.

Usually this occurred when alcohol relaxed the ego, and the results would then make the ego tighten its control. When Ruburt becomes leery or afraid to allow himself the normal amount of social drinking, this is a symptom, telling you that the subconscious is being too tightly held. The ego fears any weakening, for it feels the pressure of the subconscious demand for expression. You may now take your break. I will try to finish this, this evening, for it will be invaluable.

The conflict between the ego and subconscious, as given, was symbolically expressed in the tying of the hand symptoms. He was tied in knots, hence the swollen joints. There is a line from a poem of his, written years ago, in a period of stress, “If I can’t move one finger, how can the whole soul rise?" from his dance floor poem.

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.

Now: A strong part of the ego identity is based upon the continuity of creative achievement, which springs from the subconscious. If this were severely tampered with, the ego itself would suffer. Now give us a moment on the clairvoyant question. If the suggestion is given daily as I told you, there will be no great difficulty in any case. There is at present no outstanding clairvoyant data that is affecting his symptoms or causing any new symptoms, outside of those given.

There is always some clairvoyant material to which he is reacting, generally speaking, even as you do. There is a man it seems, somehow three times removed, but not related with any symptoms on Ruburt’s part. Proper suggestions should indeed be given before bed, along with the request for further therapeutic dreams and dreams that will give insight.

Your partyings and excursions elsewhere in particular are beneficial now. I suggest possibly that you have an evening out during the weekend. The early morning symptoms in general mimic his mother’s situation.

You see, as Ruburt allows himself spontaneity, again, the mother identification will automatically vanish, and with it the symptoms it causes. My best wishes to you both and I shall look in on you now and then. The constructive suggestions before bed are particularly important, and the request for therapeutic dreams, as these automatically relieve the morning symptoms, and further dissipate the lingering mother identification.