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Individual belief systems come into strong play, of course. You had difficulties yourself with the Salk (polio) vaccines. You were afraid to take the treatment and afraid not to. You each had complications. On another occasion you received inoculations—I believe a rabies treatment in California.

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.

When he made his earlier choices, leading to his difficulty, he did so in a smaller context, and when he considers his condition, he still does so in the light of one life alone, therefore depriving himself of other knowledge, quite personal, that is available. You will note, if you keep track, that your high and low periods largely correspond, as this afternoon, and the period on Sunday.

Your own difficulties after shoveling become exaggerated because you also make a division between what you think of as your own mental life as opposed to the world’s physical orientation, as if in some way mental life makes you unfit for physical activity. The emphasis upon exercise is vastly overrated. And the most expert athlete can die in his tracks. The body is a mental expression, yet thoughts are physically expressed. There is no physical tremor that is not first a mental one.