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Jack Gridley was a politician we knew in the 60’s just about when the sessions started. In dream, he stands for authority; he was also quite a drunk. Anyhow the vacuum represents my work as a tool—I give the vacuum but people have to pick up their own dirt; I don’t have to do it for them. I may have picked up a feeling of responsibility to do just that, back when we knew Gridley....

[...] The tips of the plant may be boiled and drunk as a tea, if otherwise the extract is unavailable. [...]

[...] Jane and I talked about the feelings of guilt and blame that are fated to surround the survivors for the rest of their lives, particularly the teenage children and the drunk driver. [...] For my part, although I believe Seth’s contention that there are basically no accidents, I was still torn between understanding of that premise, and outrage that a young drunk could wreak such havoc on a seemingly innocent family of seven people. [...]

[...] Jane said that when he was drunk her father told her that Marie was her enemy. [...]

[...] However when she resumed Seth stated that she had drunk too much and that he did not like to work with Ruburt under such conditions. [...]

[...] If now you see him and think that he looks miserable—or that he is an incurable drunk—then indeed these suggestions are picked up by him subconsciously though you have not spoken a word, and in his already weakened condition, they will be accepted and acted upon.

Drunks often need someone to reassure them, so they will not drink, and your reminders when you think Ruburt has forgotten can be most helpful.

[...] Both parents could be highly destructive, however—Ruburt’s father when he was drunk, and Ruburt’s mother generally.

(Brad said that he had brought it but he had not drunk it during a previous class.)

In the meantime, he looks with horror and disgust at the older men who have worked there for years, “getting drunk on Saturday nights, thinking only of the narrow world of their families,” and he is determined that the same thing will not happen to him. [...]

[...] Jane said she had been really out during her trance, and that now she felt “almost drunk with exhilaration.” [...]

[...] When it first swept over me, I wondered if the wine could be responsible, though actually I had drunk little. [...]

[...] He was drunk the night I spoke to him in a stinking stall outside of Jerusalem. [...]

[...] In an intimate gathering of close friends, if a few glasses of wine are drunk, and if Ruburt happens to then be increasingly aware of inner data, there is not anything out of the way in holding a session, if this happens only occasionally. [...]

[...] When it first swept over me, I wondered if the wine was responsible, though actually I had drunk very little.

[...] Now if you see him and think that he looks miserable”—Seth looked at Joan sharply—“or that he is an incurable drunk, then these suggestions are picked up by him subconsciously, though you have not spoken a word. [...]