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[...] Also the remark Ruburt made just before the session: he does blame your mother for your illness of several years back, and also for his own.

(This we did not know.) It was at the time of your illness that he began to conceal his feelings from you, and in a sense to coddle you. [...]

When you were ill and not working part of Ruburt’s money went to them, and he was ashamed at resenting this, and furious at you that you would allow them to do this to him. [...]

Now he picked up many of these reactions, again, from you when you were ill. [...]

Dictation: You may then, again, unknowingly acquire an illness and recover, never aware of your malady, being healed because of a series of events that would seemingly have nothing to do with the illness itself — because in Framework 2 the inner ego, knowing both the reason for the illness, and its cure, brought about those precise situations that remedied the condition. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, now, illnesses also serve as gateways to death in that regard—which may or may not be chosen at any specific time. [...] Some people (pause) know very well that they have decided to die—or do not care (colon): they may “come down” with severe illnesses and then change their minds because for other reasons the very crises revive them.

(Long pause at 9:12.) Many people, wanting to die, do not seek out illnesses, of course. [...]

[...] Your own illness did literally terrify him, and he feared that if he faced his true doubts concerning my existence, that he would hurt you.

[...] Jane gives the sessions credit for ending my own serious illness in 1963.)

[...] This conflicts with the inner data in the case of illnesses, and the illnesses are actually the result of conflicts of data. [...]

The same sort of distortion occurs on another scale, in the duplication of any given illness or destructive organic or gross misfunctions. [...]

[...] Then indeed they result in explosive barrages, ranting and shouting, organic and psychological illnesses, and of unfortunate manifestations.

[...] If your purposes do not involve illness, for instance, and yet if you believe in contagion, you will automatically avoid circumstances that can lead to epidemics. [...]

I will have more to say concerning illnesses, epidemics, and mass disorders in this book.

Biologically, there were illnesses avoided, deaths that could have occurred but did not. [...]

[...] I also said that on a larger, more inclusive scale I can understand a person choosing a life of illness, say, in order to learn and to explore consciousness in certain ways. [...]

[...] Both of you do indeed think in terms of impediments that do indeed seem all too real: the responsibility of maintaining good health, the financial question — and on Ruburt’s part, at least, the fear that he would not recover fully enough, but become ill again and require hospital attention once more.

When it accepts an illness as a part of its own self-image, then the illness becomes an actual part of the reality that is the self. [...]

[...] He considers the ulcer, in fact, more real and necessary than an arm or a leg, since his whole life now revolves about this illness.

In such a case the whole personality structure adopts such an illness as a new unifying principle, about which life activities are then centered. [...]

[...] We will instead content ourselves with a comparison of the two personalities in regard to certain characteristic reactions, which tend to lead the personalities toward health or illness.

You saw in your parents the first signs of illness and age as you thought of those things. [...] You fell ill. [...]

[...] They became ill because there seemed to be no reason to life. [...]

The impression now of two men, one tall and bony, with sandy hair and ill-fitting clothes. [...]

[...] This in relation to the illness being treated?”)

[...] The characteristics given however do apply to the man who is ill, whether it is the father or son.

In some cases, the idea of illness is so strong that they have built their earthly years about this psychological center. They project ill conditions upon the new body as they did upon the old one. [...]

[...] Some, for example, have wept over the corpse long after the mourners have left, not realizing that they themselves are completely whole — where, for example, the body may have been ill or the organs beyond repair.

(Refers to another sister-in-law of Peg’s, who was ill; no connection in particular though.)

[...] Here, you have, however, what almost amounts to a social program for illness — the flu season. [...]

[...] Christianity has conventionally treated illness as the punishment of God, or as a trial sent by God, to be borne stoically. [...]

Many people, caught between such conflicting beliefs, fall prey to physical ills during the Christmas season particularly. [...]

There are individuals who very rarely get ill whether or not they are inoculated, and who are not sensitive in the health area. [...]

Now give me a moment, for the ill woman. [...]

[...] The illness has been accepted by the personality in place of deeply rooted problems that the personality would not face. [...]

[...] The table was moving well now, and promptly began to spell out the following message, taken from my notes: ILL MAKE A(B) DAN(D)CE.

[...] We quickly agreed that we’d been setting up the illness syndrome for years, yet the deep emotional shocks accompanying its physical developments seemed to come at us like attacking dark birds zooming in from another probable reality. [...]

The essays contain many insights into the meanings the whole experience with illness has had for us, and will continue to have for many years. [...]

Illness result of partial failure to materialize spirit faithfully. [...]

[...] The very ill, or old, or both, might be more or less prepared.”)

He was made to feel often that he was at least strongly responsible for his mother’s illness. [...]

As I stated before, Ruburt was not responsible for his mother’s illness, the break-up of her marriage, the deaths of his grandmother and housekeeper (long pause), and had he had brothers or sisters, for example, they would have reacted in their own fashions to Marie’s behavior. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Her last illness, while painful, was not a long lingering one. [...]

[...] Now physical illnesses that are not critical but observable, that do not involve the loss of say of a limb or of an organ, generally (underlined) represent problems that are in the process of being solved, problems that are in quotes “out in the open.” [...]

Now these particular kinds of illnesses are the end product of a process of discovery. [...]

[...] I am speaking now of the kind of illnesses I have described.

[...] In basement I find four or five young men laying on the floor, each with an ill dog beside him, at least the dogs looked sick. [...]

[...] Do not compare your present state with your state before you were ill. [...]

[...] I am speaking of the physical situation—the illness itself.You have every good chance of ridding yourself of the symptoms now, but you must immediately begin to use your imagination, so that it works for you and not against you.

[...] (Pause.) The illness has not been thrust upon you, and this is your freedom. [...]

[...] There are no ill effects from the event. [...]