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The situation is basically as I described it to you (last night), caused by frightening beliefs and suggestion. That fear, however, also helped bring about a kind of switchover in communications that I will try as best I can to explain.

You tried hard not to think of your friend Leonard because his situation so upset you. At the same time you were concerned for him, of course. His illness brought up a million questions about the nature of illness and death, age, and so forth, backed up by your society’s negative beliefs, so you tried harder not to think of your friend Leonard, and of course you couldn’t relax.

Actually, Ruburt had thought of calling before, but also did not for fear of aggravating your own situation. He was even tempted to not tell you the entire situation for the same reason—and that entire process is a conscious version of what you did at other levels. You would not tell yourself that Leonard could stand some help, because your fear made you misinterpret the message.

(1:38.) In this case you had a kind of sympathetic drama that was symbolically and literally meant to remind you of Leonard. The cellular signals were sent out, but you could have reacted to them in any given number of ways once you received them. You wanted to receive them, or you would not have. Again, they could have been simply translated into a thought like: “Maybe I should call Leonard. He might want some help.” But the fears you had set about the situation prevented that easy translation.

The similar nature of your complaint to Leonard’s, however, should have instantly reminded you of such a situation.

(According to this material, I told her, if one paid attention to this sort of thing, good evidence for telepathy could be achieved. But one would have to train oneself to meet such situations and take action upon them, rather than hiding from them, as I tried to do. “It never occurred to me,” I said, to actually call Leonard and check up on him.”

(In the call this morning, Jane learned that Leonard had overdone his physical activities at the house, and suffered some discomfort as a result. His doctor told him to take it easy, as did his sister-in-law. The errand he needed doing involved purchasing a thermometer. He told Jane it hadn’t occurred to him to ask me to get it for him; instead he’d called another friend. So did Leonard pick up my own fears about his situation, and avoid calling me because of them?