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He tries at times to use a schedule, a disciplined schedule as a fence against the subconscious, and becomes panic-stricken imagining himself without it. This is not to say that a schedule in itself is not good, it is to say that he can and sometimes does misuse one. In these instances the time is actually used to clamp down on the inner self, rather than to release it. These outings will be of benefit here, not only because they allow for spontaneous interaction, but because they serve to break the schedules in ways that do not disturb working hours. They provide a beginning for a habit of release. Here the ego is helping us now, for it is sticking to these plans, and the plans are those the ego itself enjoys, and can accept. He has been afraid to simply sit and think, for fear of letting the spontaneous self show without the symbolized writing mechanism.

A variety of small, perhaps, but frequent alterations of schedule or habit are very helpful. More extensive changes, a change in working hours, for example, might frighten the ego and should be avoided.

You have been doing well with the pendulum, and the exercise has successively opened up communication with deeper layers of the self. An hypnotic session would be helpful, but only when you feel confident. A point here involving Ruburt’s hands and his mother’s sweaters: he knew that knitting was a therapeutic measure suggested in the past to exercise his mother’s hands. When he became sensitized to the sweaters, then he had difficulty with his own hands, you see.

We will shortly end this session. I intend to go into past-life experiences rather extensively, but in another context. The main problems with Ruburt exist as given, and when these are cleared then we will have clear access to our other material, that is, the past-life data.