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[...] When you say nothing he uses this as an excuse, thinking, “Rob has said nothing, therefore he must agree with what I am doing.”

Now it will help if you take it for granted that under some circumstances, dealing with Ruburt’s idea of authority, he has difficulty expressing dissatisfaction, or any normal impatience... [...]

You have not forced Ruburt into paths where he did not want to go. [...]

[...] He had brown hair combed straight back, almost a double chin, a sharp nose and high forehead, and in his right hand he held a microphone; he was talking into it, giving a lecture on something to do with weights. [...] I could not tell if he was with others or not.

I prefer that he keep highly informed. His own interests propel him in this direction, and because of the way in which we are working together, it is advantageous for him to become acquainted with as much knowledge in a number of fields as he is capable of assimilating. [...]

This process is carried out unconsciously, and yet if mankind follows through then he will become consciously aware of his own part in this continual creation of matter, and he will be able to continue in a much more intelligent manner.

[...] I then asked his age; he said 42. I then told him my name, and he repeated it. [...]

[...] It denies man the practical use of those very elements that he needs as a biological creature: the feeling that he is at life’s center, that he can act safely in his environment, that he can trust himself, and that his being and his actions have meaning.

[...] If the paranoid might feel that he [or she] is pursued, by the government or “ungodly powers,” then at least he feels that his life must be important: otherwise, why would others seek to destroy it? If voices tell him he is to be destroyed, then these at least are comforting voices, for they convince him that his life must have value.

[...] If in your terms he were sane, he could not use his creative abilities, for they are always connected with life’s meaning; and sane, the paranoid is convinced that life is meaningless. [...]

[...] I am saying that if man does not find meaning in life he will not live, bread or no. He will not have the energy to seek bread, nor trust his impulse to do so.

Ruburt, for example, would have made the same error had he not been led by his experience beyond the framework of inspiration that had given it birth. (Pause.) In his case, then, he was propelled into new concepts because he had the sense to reject old ones, and the courage to go ahead.

The experience came within a framework that he could accept — that of highly accelerated inspiration. His consciousness left his body only after he was in the throes of what seemed to him to be inspiration of almost unbearable intensity. [...]

To the extent that he is true to his own vision, possibilities of expansion are available to him that he could hardly have achieved otherwise. [...]

[...] Before our sessions, he was so disillusioned that he would not even consider any questions dealing with “religious matters.”

Give us a moment … While connected with your own civilization, the man Einstein¹ came closest perhaps in this regard, for he was able to quite naturally identify himself with various “functions” of the universe. He was able to listen to the inner voice of matter. He was intuitively and emotionally led to his discoveries. He leaned against time, and felt it give and wobble.

If Einstein had been a better mathematician,⁷ he would not have made the breakthroughs that he did. He would have been too cowed. [...]

[...] He often commented upon his poor memory. He did much of his work through intuition and images. Not long after the outline for his Special Theory of Relativity was published in 1905, it was said that Einstein owed its accomplishment at least partly to the fact that he knew little about the mathematics of space and time.

[...] He would have discovered much more had he been able to trust his intuitions even more, and able to leave more of the so-called scientific proof of his theories to lesser men, to give himself more inner freedom.”

I would like you kindly, not sternly, when he moves slowly, to remind him that he can move more quickly, for in almost all instances he can. [...]

[...] He does not need to protect himself physically from any experience, nor hold up the arms to ward off the blows of fate. [...]

Lift up his rib cage area (gesture,) so that he gets the idea of that up and down easy motion. [...]

[...] As long as he faithfully and consistently follows these lines he will operate at maximum levels. When he falters he lets himself in for difficulties.

His personality structure is different, and he has other qualities to counteract against the obsessive tendencies inherited from his mother. [...] He learned from it, and what he has learned will stand him in good stead. [...]

He saw how the annoying hip condition vanished when he followed the outlined recommendations. [...]

[...] An instant cure is possible, but he is not at that point.

He will shortly be able to add other exercises in straightening out the knees further, and though he did not tell you, he has now and then tried and felt new loosening. He places his weight often upon his hands, increasing circulation there, bringing about the flush of color, but this only occurs with certain arm motions that suddenly release blood to the hands—that is, that release it more suddenly than he is accustomed to.

[...] Physically, Ruburt is improving, as you can see—but he used a stimulus of fear —the fear that otherwise he might be bedridden.

Whenever he remembers Framework 2 there are sudden, significant improvements. [...] And each day simply to imagine he puts into it a sheet of paper that says “Of course I walk normally.” [...]

[...] As soon as Ruburt cut down on his worrying for a day or so, he was crowded with creative ideas. He needs your help there—not in ignoring, say, the condition of the world, but by putting that in perspective, and by balancing it out by a determined effort to enjoy each day and to not let your worries minimize simple pleasures. [...]

He will certainly be able to do so, taking it for granted that he continues as he is doing. He will then be able to sit up properly, and then to walk with greater and greater assurance and ease. [...]

Ruburt is delighted, as you are, with his ever-increasing mobility, yet he still wonders when all of this will be translated into practical activity—meaning he wonders when he will be able to sit up properly, and begin to walk. [...]

[...] “I think he stopped because I had a slight spasm,” Jane said. [...]

(“I was going to ask him about the right leg,” I said, “but I guess he’s already answered the question.”

([Bette:] “Because he started to—He just didn’t have any gumption to him. He started to whimper and to cry when he knew that he had his home and his family to protect and he didn’t do it, and I had crying kids and I didn’t need a crying husband because the older kids could shoot much better than their father because he didn’t know how to pull the trigger. He didn’t know how to do anything.”

[...] I sure didn’t. My kids sure didn’t and my husband didn’t. He couldn’t do anything.”

[...] Ordinarily he pays no attention to the sessions, after his early displays when the sessions first began; at that time, according to Seth, he sensed Seth’s presence and reacted strongly. He has since grown used to this.

He knew he was off the track, however, and this prevented him from getting more valid information, for he was alarmed.

[...] It enables him to direct his energy where he wants it, when he wants it. [...]

[...] He focused it differently, and so saw an image of which he would normally not be aware.

(“I’ve noticed lately that he isn’t moving nearly as much as he used to. Is this because he’s focusing on other things these days, or—”)

Ruburt should now remind himself that he is indeed of a robust nature—that he is not frail, and that his skin is not delicate and sensitive, but healthy. This will help him counter some of the unspoken negative suggestions—that because of his small size he is fragile—

(“I haven’t been thinking of it, though,” she countered, “though when he mentioned it I realized what he meant....” [...]

Ruburt thought of wearing shoes, and when you came home he wore them until nap time. I suggest that he make this more of a habit, for the shoes have a suggestive value, as he well knows. [...]

[...] He altered them. Your remarks, however, and his use of them, became an example of creative suggestive behavior, for he seized upon the idea of the luxury of motion, and realized that relaxation is motion. [...]

Try to forget all notions that Ruburt might relax so suddenly that he would be in difficulty —not able to get about, say. He might be too relaxed to get up for an hour or so, or need your help at the moment, but the body is simply not going to collapse if it relaxes, and those ideas could impede your progress. [...]

[...] This was the result of your own suggestions, for you said that Ruburt’s body would continue to relax as he slept.

[...] He responded in an excellent manner to my suggestions (last week).

[...] He has become aware, by hindsight, of some of my reasons for the half-hour of physical activity that I recommended. [...]

He is thinking of what to do physically, however, which automatically alters his mental expectations, and further improves his beliefs. [...]

[...] “I’m just not up to it,” Jane said, “but there’s a lot of stuff he could give on the ulcer thing right now. [...]

[...] But he has done well with it. And he can do far better. [...]

[...] He used the occasion of losing the lower teeth completely to begin an overall release of tension. [...]

The legs are extending further, however, and sometimes when he walks in the bathroom this is quite obvious. [...]

Any individual reacts to a reality as he perceives it to be, and he perceives it to be since he has himself created it from basic reality. [...]

We are largely over this hump now, and the actual writing of the book in its entirety will actually serve to strengthen his confidence in this respect, since the validity of our sessions will be stressed as he reads material for his book. At its completion he will be much more committed than he is now, and indeed our sessions will attain added depth through his acquiescence.

In his case, extra reserves of energy have been used in practical concerns over his book, although to deal with them he has drawn upon additional energies. [...] Unfortunately the knowledge that his book will be published, while bringing him much satisfaction, has also served to remind him of the manner in which he fears many might look upon both our sessions and his past endeavors in this field.

[...] His viewpoint and his field of reference will at all times color to some extent or another the nature of the reality which he perceives.

It will do good also if during the day occasionally he imagines the exercise as he goes about his chores, but he should not do this willfully, with an intent to command physical performance. The whole thing should be done with a mental lightness, more as if it were a children’s game, and he must remember this for it is the whole point of the procedure.

When resting, and in a tranquil state of mind, he should simply imagine the limbs slowly stretching out, becoming somewhat longer, and then slowly returning to their original length. He should then imagine the neck revolving easily and normally three times in each direction; mentally here doing the yoga neck exercise that he recalls.

[...] He needed that extra, outside contact as others came here. Now he does not.

[...] He will find himself writing in other areas as well. [...]

He is allowing his body its natural expression. [...] The protests that he blocked out then can immediately begin their own rehabilitation. He is about over that particular process.

[...] He felt briefly though quite correctly this evening that the area now being worked upon involved quickness of motion.

He felt like crying this afternoon. [...]

[...] He did not allow his muscles their natural protest.

[...] He was six weeks old. [...] During the latter part of this session he slept beside me, wedged between my leg and the arm of the divan. [...]

(After an instant of surprise, ears up, he jumped down from the divan, across the coffee table between us, and up into Jane’s lap while she was still in trance. He curled up against her at once. [...]

[...] He senses that vital energy, and responds to it.

He has no reason (long pause) to feel guilty, or to punish himself for his mother’s situation. He did not murder her in any way by his birth. He is, therefore, no murderer or destroyer, or contemptible. He is not his mother’s murderer, then, in any fashion, nor responsible for the breakup of his parents’ marriage.

He has no such crime, or crimes, to repent of, or to punish himself for. He is not therefore an unnatural daughter of the earth.

[...] He is therefore not damned in any manner — neither by God or nature, and there is no reason for him to damn himself. He is therefore innocent, and pronounced so.

[...] He did not rob her of her own life by being born.