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Now: I would like to clear up a few misconceptions.

His early background was relatively different: an invalid mother, no father, on welfare, et cetera, so his environment alone to some extent placed him in a different light in the eyes of his contemporaries. Added to this, from the beginning he did indeed –relatively, now—stand out. His unusual vitality, abilities, and intelligence were apparent, but they were not conventional abilities. The ability alone did not win friends and influence people.

Now, what would that extreme behavior consist of “at its worst?” He felt that if he were a person given to extremes, then to use his abilities he must apply due discipline so that his head was not turned, so that he did not become a victim of fame, as many other writers and artists did—or so it seemed. It certainly should be obvious to Ruburt now that his personality contains some quite conservative aspects—a marriage going into two decades and more does not exactly make one worry about promiscuity. So many old fears were based upon misconceptions on the part of the personality that in younger years found itself to be quite different than its contemporaries, and gradually began to set up defenses against them.

(9:15.) Now. Give us a moment.... Ruburt is definitely building up a good and dependable sense of trust with the body, and under conditions that were admittedly not of the best. Your own attitude has been excellent—I congratulate you on it, and I congratulate Ruburt on the mental changes of attitude that he is now in the process of setting up.

This is particularly important since the body itself is now working with improvements involving the relationships of motion between its various parts, and the quickening of nerve impulses connected with motion. I am aware that much of that does not show as yet. Ruburt’s balance, however, while standing, has definitely improved. The body has gone through several complete processes of late, and as these occur each time the discomfort has been less, and of less duration.

Now (humorously), I am here, more or less in a recording or in the original, whenever you want me—but I do want to reassure you both that you are indeed doing well.

A second-volume book can often work in such a way. But Volume 1 will do excellently as soon as Volume 2 is in the offing. And before that there will be other spurts, as those people who are now reading the earlier books will begin to look for Volume 1. There is a lag there.

I am letting Ruburt handle that for his own experience—not that I do not tip the scales now and then at other levels.

Now I bid you a fond good evening. And feel free with the sessions. If you want to write, and it happens to be a session night, as far as I am concerned there is no difference. Your Wednesdays or Saturdays are meaningless to me.