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Specific inoculations are given under various conditions. They are bound to affect the biological system. The people who take such inoculations within your own culture, now, usually do so because they do not want the disease specified, and they believe that the inoculation will prevent it. It is impossible to tell ahead of time how many of those individuals would come down with the disease otherwise, yet diseases do come and go whether or not inoculations are given. The mechanisms operate in such a fashion that by now overall belief has come to such a point that the same results would almost be effected if an inoculation of no particular value were given instead. The mind is as effective against viruses as anything else—and in such hypothetical cases immune reactions would be set up biologically, through the mind’s beliefs.

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.

(Recently I’d mentioned to Jane that it would be nice if Seth would say something about the speakers, and counterparts.)

The speakers, for example, bring information into your system of reality, beyond that body of knowledge physically available to you. They put this into the structure of your times, however, for otherwise it would not be understood at all.

I will not quibble with either of you, and I am not by any means justifying any of Ruburt’s methods, in the unfortunate restraint he has placed upon his body. I would like to make one remark: you do have many lives. Each person knows this on an unconscious basis. Some know it consciously. Any decisions made are made with that in mind.

If you had but one life to live, it would surely be a tragedy if you made any important errors. It would even be a tragedy if you made none—for whatever road you took would seem to be taken at the expense of numberless, perhaps more promising ones.

You speed up the process of recovery by relaxing and trusting it. He tried to speed it up by negatively projecting present problems into the future, hoping to scare himself enough so that he would recover more quickly. The main methods, again, for him—one: read the statements in the morning, and when needed otherwise. Two: Ruburt should think of ideas and his writing in those hours devoted to it. He should allow himself creative freedom then. Three: he should remind himself that his desire and intent are impressing Framework 2, and that as much as possible he should relax his efforts here.

Try to do your mutual suggestions when you feel you have a good rapport with Framework 2. You were wise not to do so today. Ruburt did try self-hypnosis then, but he was so overly concerned whether or not he would meet with results that for a while he simply exhausted himself with worry and concern. He held the session regardless, however, and allowed himself breathing space.