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The entire Air Force affair thus far has been beneficial, in that Ruburt sees that his abilities can have great application in physical terms. He needed the confidence, which is why he accepted the situation.

As I told you a while back, Ruburt is left with body beliefs. The reasons behind those beliefs largely no longer operate. They are understood, and are no longer strong enough to cause such a condition. The body beliefs however have not been challenged.

The initiating reasons behind those beliefs have been challenged. That is why they are not now significant. They led up to the resulting body beliefs, however. These are met most immediately in Ruburt’s most intimate contact—body meeting world. They are the most concrete-seeming evidence, you see. It is in this area then where the physical evidence most strongly appears, and it can seem overwhelming.

You are used to “trusting your physical perceptions,” taught to accept physical evidence above all as the mark of reality. This is a part of your culture. Ruburt, involved in highly avant-garde work, always tried to make sure he had both feet upon the ground—in his terms, to be fairly objective. When he finds himself in such physical circumstances then it is difficult for him to fly in the face of such “physical evidence.”

In his situation however he has largely felt powerless to alter the conditions. Part of this is personal, but part is also cultural, and shows the one area of cultural beliefs from which Ruburt has not freed himself. At times it has seemed at best Pollyanna, even to you, in the face of Ruburt’s daily situation, and your intimate experience with it, to pretend playfully that it did not exist.

Ruburt has on several occasions, but each time let the physical data cow him.

Again, since you are culturally taught, to accept physical data as your criteria for physical reality, this is to some extent quite understandable. Ruburt in most other areas has discarded that concept, however, and in so doing has enlarged the experiences of his consciousness, and confounded those who accept such principles unthinkingly, as the Air Force personnel.

Can I give you a few practical suggestions, to fit your present situation? Again, when you awaken in the morning, come over to Ruburt’s side of the bed. In your own way, remind him of what I have said. He wants to get up earlier. But when he feels as if his efforts physically are getting nowhere, then he thinks “What is the use?” So your very early morning encouragement can be of value.

—sadly, and with a nostalgic remembrance, because you do not believe that Ruburt can change his beliefs enough, and this, you see, is precisely what he fears. It is, however, most probable simply because the evidence is before you in all areas of your lives—that his energy, when it is directed, is most effective. We simply want it now directed in the physical area.

The same unconventional defiance of official beliefs shown in the Air Force affair can indeed be translated into other terms. Is want you, together, to do the suggestions again; but more, to assert individually and jointly, against what seems to be the physical evidence of Ruburt’s senses.

These can be overcome, and it is as easy as a child’s game, as you said—if you realize, or if Ruburt realizes, that it is.