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If you believe in the laws of cause and effect, as accepted, or in the laws of polarity, as accepted (and explained in a letter we received today), then you will be bound by those laws, for they will represent your artistic technique. [...]

[...] They fall back to cause and effect.

(“Maybe my feelings weren’t caused by any thing, but some kind of acceleration toward a state I couldn’t reach, instead of any great disclosure for the world,” Jane said a little later. [...]

[...] He believes implicitly that certain foods cause his stomach to behave in a particular manner. [...] As long as it is effective, the medicine further convinces him that his stomach difficulty can only be relieved in this fashion.

[...] These sleep-state effects were surprisingly persistent; although they were somewhat reduced when she encountered them again on Thursday night, they didn’t taper off altogether until the weekend. [...]

In either case, if the therapy is effective you may give up your symptoms, if both you and the hypnotist implicitly believe in the situation and framework of those convictions.

Now there is no doubt that you cause your dream environment as you cause your physical environment. [...]

[...] The following mental exercise is most effective. [...]

[...] It will lead to more confidence, and of itself wipes out the fear that causes most negative conditions. [...]

[...] These do not occur by chance, but when some kind of rapport causes effects to leap between systems that otherwise appear quite separated. [...]

[...] Many things caused us to lay it aside: other work, the holidays, the plain need for a change of pace, travel, and the approaching death of my father….

(Saturday, June 23, 1973, was the first anniversary of the flood caused by Tropical Storm Agnes — or, as the local newspaper put it in a flood supplement, the occasion was Agnes Plus One.

Dictation: Currently, mankind has little knowledge of the interior dream world, his place in it, or its effects upon his daily conscious life.

If your conscious beliefs are causing you great distress, countering beneficial beliefs may be received from this source. [...]

As the chiropractor made repeated adjustments, gradually the effect would lessen. [...] Certain pains through association can (underlined) send an individual backward to the original fear or situation that first caused it.

[...] Retracing is a noticeable effect, not understood, highly distorted, in the explanations you have been given, representing an echoing effect that occurs whenever the individual involved touches upon those thought and feeling areas that brought about the difficulty.

[...] Retracing (in answer to my question at break) will not occur in any predetermined rigid manner, as it has been described unless there is a psychic or mental return to the mental patterns that caused the difficulties to begin with. [...]

[...] Your cause and effect theory, again, is responsible here for many distortions, such as the idea that the matter of say, a flower, grows from matter of a seed directly. [...]

[...] Nevertheless I do go easy on you now and then, merely because I like to vary the intensities of our sessions, as this is a most effective teaching method, and various portions of subject matter cause different energy expenditures.

In all cases constructions will follow the line of expectation, and often a vicious circle is initiated, where the environment created by an individual will then reinforce the very distortive conceptions that caused it to begin with.

I have frequently said that beliefs cause reality, and that no symptom will simply fade away unless the “reason” is ascertained — but such reasons go far beneath your current ideas of cause and effect. [...] Beneath them, the apparent causes of limitations in personal life, there are other far-reaching beliefs, and each individual will use those elements in his private experience to back these up. [...]

[...] Their initial problems were caused precisely as a result of the same kind of thinking. [...]

[...] Your only effective point of changing any aspect of your world lies in that miraculous instant connection of spirit and self through neurological impact.

You may finally come to a half-understanding of the nature of reality and wail, “I believe that I have caused these ill effects, but I find myself unable to reverse them.”

[...] The same kind of thought, habitually repeated, will seem to have a more or less permanent effect. If you like the effect then you seldom examine the thought. [...]

[...] As soon as you recognize this fact you can begin at once to alter those conditions that cause you dismay or dissatisfaction.

Now: you know generally how associations work in your own mind, seemingly bringing memories or images to you out of context—that is, not following the usual patterns of time or cause and effect.

[...] The difficulty with walking, physically now, is caused by the head and neck areas, which are being released. Physically now, tension causes the head and neck difficulty. [...]

Physically there is nothing wrong with Ruburt’s body, except constantly applied tension, partially caused by negative habits of thought.

[...] However, conscious fears cause the ego to tighten its grasp, and some effects of this nature were starting up. [...]

[...] In your case, it enables you to focus your artistic ability along lines necessary to make it effective on your plane. However, when the ego becomes involved with fears, it ceases to be an effective tool and becomes instead a hammer hitting you incessantly over the head. [...]

[...] [Rob had made a remark to this effect earlier.] The midplane is indeed an excellent description of the semi-plane which she now inhabits. [...]

Difficulty in the third and seventh vertebrae with our friend, Mark, causing pressure. [...]

[...] In the first place, if you imagine that a particular student will misbehave, you are automatically sending him a telepathic message to that effect. [...]

[...] Suggestions, whether given to you or given by you, cause an emotional situation that automatically affects the production of hormones and chemicals.

[...] A few remarks having to do with the main reason that your suggestions were not as effective as you would have liked.

The understanding that the artistic self was not being threatened should allow you to relax sufficiently for the suggestions to take effect more. [...]

You did not get your suggestions through adequately because in this important area you misjudged its motives, and this caused a certain panic on your part, as mentioned.

The word “result,” you see, automatically infers cause and effect — the cause happening before the effect, and this is simply one small example of the strength of such distortions, and of the inherent difficulties involved with verbal thought, for it always implies a single-line delineation.

[...] It is not correct, therefore, to suppose that your actions in this life are caused by a previous existence, or that you are being punished in this life for crimes in a past one. [...]

(11:08.) To the extent, therefore, that you allow the intuitions and knowledge of the multidimensional self to flow through the conscious self, to that extent not only do you perform your role in the play more effectively, but also you add new energy, insights, and creativity to the entire dimension.

[...] On the negative side he can go overboard, fearing to cause another the slightest hurt, and hurting himself instead.

[...] The smallest aggressive jerking of his mother’s bed could cause her pain, you see. [...]

So there was an exaggerated idea of the effect of normally expressed aggression. [...]

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[...] Epidemics of Beliefs, and Effective Mental ‘Inoculations’ Against Despair.”

(Long pause at 10:20.) While in this book I will point out some of the unfortunate areas of private and mass experience, I will also provide some suggestions for effective solutions. [...]

(The house was noisy temporarily: A carpenter in a downstairs apartment was using an electric saw at frequent intervals as he repaired some of the damage caused by last June’s massive flood. [...]

[...] These complex compounds are then carried by body fluids to other organs or tissues, where they have certain effects. [...]

[...] It is beneath the usual cause-and-effect area that the true “causes and effects” lie. [...]

“Using the senses developed on a particular plane to perceive its characteristic camouflage patterns, it is almost impossible to see beyond these boundary effects. [...] The appearance of an expanding universe is also caused, therefore, by this distortive boundary effect …

[...] There is a continual exchange of energy and vitality, in other words, of actual atoms and molecules between one plane and another … the interaction and movement of even one plane through another results in effects that will be perceived in various ways … as necessary distortive boundaries, in some cases resembling a flow as if a plane were surrounded by water, or in other cases a charge as of electricity. But on each plane the effects … of this interchange of energy will take on the camouflage [physical appearance] of the particular plane.

[...] There may be very unpleasant side effects. [...]

[...] There was a vast gulf between those two extremes—one that was bound to cause strain and effort and misunderstandings. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It always tries to right itself, but it must also work within the effective overall pattern of beliefs and expectations. [...]