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(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.

(Yet several times today, again, Jane experienced brief period where she could read much better without her glasses than with them—quite phenomenal changes, in fact.)

(Jane has experienced many such signs recently. We’ve been aware for some time of her ease in sitting and getting up; the garage steps phenomenon is a more recent one; she negotiated those much more easily today.)

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.

Give us a moment.... The eyes naturally need contact with different kinds of light, temperature, wind, and air. They are responsive to those conditions, and react to them in a lively fashion. Contact lenses impede that responsiveness, to a greater extent than glasses. They impede the liveliness of the eyes over a period of time; the eyes’ responsiveness is connected with the ears’ responsiveness, and with balance.

I am telling him that my forecast (in the deleted session for August 1, 1977) did take place, although the eyes’ alterations showed in spasmodic excellent behavior, rather than as steady better behavior. They will stabilize, however, practically speaking, as they did at times today.

(11:23.) Give us a moment.... You have little idea of the ways in which you inspire others. The few moments you gave those young people are important to them out of all proportion as far as the time concerned is involved.