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A child is quite aware of its parents’ beliefs, and quite aware of the parents’ and the doctor’s authority. Inoculations have great magical effect upon children in that regard. Infants carry a strong telepathic connection with the mother, which is not severed for some time, so that inoculations given the infant can work in that regard, even as a child can also be protected in other systems when the mother calls upon the appropriate spirit.
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You would not have had difficulty without the inoculation. At the time you did suffer a state of shock initially, but the body could handle that. You need general inoculations now, in the society at large, with children’s diseases and so forth, because the belief in the inoculations is so strong.
(10:25.) Give us a moment.... I am going carefully, because much of this could be misunderstood. In a way, modern medicine has brought about many of the complications that now assail it. When women had too many children in the past, many did not live to adulthood. In the larger scheme of reality, this provided a framework for individuals to taste infancy or childhood without growing to maturity. It seems like the most heartless lack of compassion to say that such a situation was the most natural, and in the long run for all, the most advantageous. And yet that can be said, for the framework worked, individually, and fit in with the goals of the species. The quality of life is all-important. There were fewer suicides, for those who survived, survived because of their own intent, their own desire, and the young died when it seemed natural to them. They died naturally, that is, and wholeheartedly, and were not torn between life and death.
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