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(Our lives continue to expand in unexpected ways among an incredible variety of probable realities. And I must say that once again Jane and I have been surprised and touched. When I got home from 330 last night I found in the mail a letter from Maude Cardwell of Reality Change, the Seth newsletter she publishes in Austin, Texas. In it she described how she’d been approached by a subscriber who wanted to start a fund to help Jane and me with medical expenses. The letter I’d had published recently in the November issue of Coordinate Point International, describing Jane’s challenges, had come to the attention of the reader in St. Paul, MN, who had called Maude with the idea of a fund.

(2:30. Jane ate a good lunch. Afterward I read my letter and Maude’s to her. “Your letter is terrific,” she said, an excellent piece of writing.” I hadn’t thought of it that way particularly. We discussed many possibilities swirling around the fund idea. The idea was new to Jane, of course, and I wanted to give her time to think about it. I said I’d merely write Maude a note of acknowledgement at this time anyhow. Jane said she’d also dictate a letter eventually to the group. She was very reserved about Seth possibly delivering a message for them. Our answer could range all the way from yes to no, with any combination of stops in between. I thought Seth could comment today, but I expected no detailed response there either at this time. One thing became quite clear as we talked: The fund idea abruptly led us into looking at our beliefs and motives and “work” in new ways—a valuable service right there.

That is why so many of them promote our work, buy books for others, and form their own kind of grass-roots organizations. (Long pause.) To some extent they have felt closed out, unable to contribute. That is why you received the letter about the fund. The fund idea represents many people’s opportunity to feel a part of our venture. They want to be able to change the world for the better to whatever extent possible. The people are definitely well-meaning, of good intent, and they welcome the idea of expending energy, time, and money on our behalf. To their way of thinking this gives many people an opportunity—

(In relation to Seth’s material on the fund, I told Jane, it seems that creativity obviously has many more facets to it than we ordinarily think—if we need or want money, for example, with it just serving as a means to an end—our doing our work—it will be provided if we’re not closed to the idea. And it doesn’t matter how it comes, as long as it’s honest—through our “earning” it in the conventional way, or whether we find it on the ground or it falls out of the sky, or someone gives it to us, or it comes through insurance, or whatever. The fund idea is an ideal case in point, being quite unexpected. As we talked Jane said the idea may even have ramifications that may touch Pete Harpending, our attorney.

[...] Above all, I didn’t want the fund idea, say, to lead to complications with the insurance deal, I told Jane, or perhaps to lead to a failure of a settlement there. [...] This morning while working on the letter to Maude Cardwell, I guess I’d blithely took it for granted that the fund idea might supplement any insurance benefits. But then after supper, as I talked with Seth, I found myself wondering whether the fund thing would cause enough of a change in our probabilities to perhaps negate the insurance settlement, whatever it might be. [...]

[...] I outlined the thoughts Jane and I had about the fund she suggested for our medical expenses. [...]

[...] We finished our discussion about the fund idea at 3:15. [...]

[...] I didn’t ask Seth to comment on the fund idea. [...]

[...] I will have more to say concerning your fund later this week, I bid you both a fond good afternoon, and I do indeed quicken those coordinates that accelerate the healing processes.

(Seth commented upon the fund, perhaps, because of the letter I took to read Jane, from Mary Newman. [...]

[...] I suspect such funds are taxable, so to legally avoid having much of any funds lost through heavy taxes, Jane and I need advice as to what to do. [...]

Tell our friend, Ruburt, that Nassair should not set up what he is thinking of setting up, his offshore fund; and tell Ruburt that that is the only message I have for Mr. Nassair at this time. [...] Tell him also that Mr. Nassair’s friend, who was here at class, subconsciously knows that Mr. Nassair should not set up the fund at this time, but did not want to take the responsibility for saying so. [...]

[...] And I found another check for $1000 in a letter, as a donation to Jane’s hospital-expenses fund. [...]

[...] It saw government funds go past it to other sectors more economically depressed. [...]

Locally you had a depressed region not yet in the kind of crisis situation that would draw great federal funds, and highly unstable social and economic conditions coupled with a sense of hopelessness.

[...] Federal funds were directed instantly to this region. [...]

[...] After breakfast I called to see if the bank was open today, since I wanted to open the account for Jane’s hospital fund, but it was closed for Washington’s birthday. [...]

[...] He agreed with my idea to open a separate account for fund checks. [...]

[...] You were wondering when any additional funds would be received, and this gave impetus to your abilities. [...]

An M, S. (Pause.) A disagreement today between Dr. Instream and a man with a mustache, over money and a policy, having to do with how funds should be used. [...]

[...] I imagine I’ll be opening a separate account at the bank for the fund checks. [...]

[...] No news about Blue Cross — but he had said that we had no worries about gift taxes should anyone contribute to the fund Maude Cardwell is presumably organizing for us. [...]

[...] I did a few letters, thanking people who have contributed to Jane’s hospital fund. [...]

(Jane can’t know it yet, but in the mail tonight was another letter from Maude Cardwell, containing some $620 in checks for her hospital fund. [...]

[...] The girl told me that one of the checks I’d deposited for Jane’s hospital fund wasn’t for $1000, as we’d both thought — but was instead for $1 million. [...]

(Jane said the cans stood for creature nourishment that we could get when we needed it, and that it was also related to the fund question. [...]

It is precisely because Ruburt will be cut off from funds that he will permit himself, and demand of himself, that he use all of his tremendous energy in his work. [...]

This is an extreme simplification, but while he is getting funds elsewhere, he does not really feel the need or the impetus to sell his work. [...]

[...] When I gave a rough estimate, she said that ruled out applying for something called Hill-Burton funds for payment toward the insurance bill, I believe. [...]

[...] “I don’t know whether the $20,000 represents all we’ll get from donations — the fund — whether it’s from one person, is a start of something larger, or what,” I told Jane. [...]

[...] The article on page 12 of the newspaper, dealing with the Dominican seminary in Portugal, has to do with the journey to the United States each year of a priest, Rev. Fernandes, on a fund-raising mission. The subtitle of the article also reads: “Project in Portugal Aided by Funds Raised in U.S.”.