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(3. What do you think about people’s reactions to “Unknown” Reality so far?

(Seth considered the first two questions but not the third one; I didn’t realize this until the session was over. We were visited by Sheri, Jerry, and Roni at 8:33 PM this evening; they stayed an hour or so, hence the late start for this evening’s session. Sheri called at 8 PM, having just arrived at the Bankers’ from NYC. She wanted to tell us about class in NYC, etc. Although we wanted to see her, we found ourselves caught in the old dilemma about visitors conflicting with plans we’d already made— i.e., the session tonight. Half our problem, we saw in a discussion before the guests arrived, was that we had no planned response for such situations: we ended up feeling guilty at saying no, and resentful at saying yes. As it was, we sat for the session, with a resolve to try to do better next time. We do make progress in such affairs as visitors, expected or not expected, but could do much better.

The body even lovingly seeks to follow its own nature, and is lovingly directed to do so. Ruburt’s eyes lovingly try to perfect themselves. I realize you are not living in an ideal world, but we are giving that world ideas that can vastly increase peoples’ understanding. The body is never in a state of status quo. Ruburt’s improvements are occurring, as I said. The eyes, however, have given hints of their true capacity, as in today’s episodes.

Many people, not all, do “not see the world as others see it,” and so there are social and medical explanations. The eyes do not function right—and they are given glasses. When Ruburt’s body began its regeneration lately, it began to correct all conditions from scratch. It will give hints and signs of where it is going, as in today’s episode.

When the large ligaments in the neck area started to repair themselves, they did not try to do a halfway job, but to undo conditions of longstanding; some that were taken for granted, such as lack of depth perception, for example. Your fears, generated by the beliefs of your society, of course, add extra anxiety when Ruburt’s eyes look poorly, and he has trouble with his vision.

As you know, many people acquire all kinds of glasses when their eyes are in temporary periods of stress. When Ruburt took his glasses off at times, the eyes tried automatically to adjust themselves (as today). There is no need for him to go without glasses for any specific amount of time. When he feels, however, as he did today, like taking the glasses off, let him do so. Your fears force you to insist upon improvements as fast as possible. Each improvement reinforces your confidence. On the other hand, the fear also generates anxiety, and sometimes more discomfort, as you interpret it, as a result.

Such measures to some extent segregate certain portions of the body, as if those portions could be considered alone. In Ruburt’s case the bifocals would have been detrimental. His vision problems had little to do with his eyes, for example, but with the way he was using the ligaments in his neck, and with his posture. As the posture changed, the eyes had to change. Those changes were bound to involve alterations in vision.