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This procedure, and your consent, will give Ruburt a feeling of trust without which I do not believe he would otherwise proceed. In other words, the situations and conditions will not be out of your hands at any time. Nor shall we necessarily keep to any one procedure. I believe that certain experiments will allow us to get more complete data through censorship.

We are merely now experimenting. If at any time Joseph, you do not agree with any particular procedure or condition or situation, you may immediately speak the words that I have given you, and the situation or condition will become the normal one.

Nor would I have attempted such a procedure until I knew that Ruburt was ready for it, or at least ready to begin it, for this is but a beginning. He is doing well. This is of course a training period, and he may become momentarily uneasy, but never frightened. It is simply a matter of new orientation, and doing without certain props that are basically unimportant, but practically extremely convenient; such props as the divisions of sensation, fenced in from each other by pickets of minutes.

There will be varieties of adjustment; this also is to be expected. In the long run this procedure will take less out of Ruburt, and we of course will not exceed our usual regularity. Since we are trying something new I do not know how far we shall proceed this evening, for I do not press for quick, but press for thorough and safe progress. And even now, woe to me if I make a wrong move, for Ruburt would most certainly rise up in arms.

[...] Out of the goodness of its heart, all of its scientific procedures would be put at my disposal. [...] (We didn’t have nearly enough money, but could qualify for adequate insurance by fulfilling the terms of an 11-month waiting period.) But regardless of cost, one orthopedist saw me staying right in the hospital—now that I was there—until the entire procedure was finished. [...]

What might happen to the body, I wondered, even if its psychic tenant were willing to endure any or all of those “surgical procedures”? [...] Joint-replacement operations were irreversible procedures, and I also had on file material about how they sometimes failed.

Being a proper candidate meant that I would turn my life over to medical science in the hospital for at least a year: a year spent in therapy, surgical procedures, and more therapy, until I ended up having at least four separate operations. [...]

[...] Someday, I told Jane, and regardless of whether or not we ever choose to take advantage of any of them, we’ll be questioning orthopedic surgeons very closely about what “surgical procedures” are available.

[...] Now these sound like very simple procedures, but they are the ones that work. [...]

With the best intentions in the world, his conscious attention was on his symptoms and his physical condition all day long, on the procedures involved with motion.

The state of his symptoms becomes his day, and yours, when either of you indulge in that kind of procedure. [...]

[...] (Long pause at 10:25.) The two of you together can help break these procedures so that at least the both of you are not applying negative ideas at the same time. [...]

All of these procedures are unnecessary to consciousness itself, however. [...]

[...] Information is now carried in reverse fashion back to the inner self, in an instantaneous and automatic procedure. [...]

This automatic procedure works both ways, then, constantly. [...]

[...] It is very possible, however, that science itself will in time discover the unfortunate side effects of many such procedures, and begin to reevaluate the entire subject.

[...] As a direct result, at least as many diseases develop through such procedures as would exist in a highly primitive society with unsanitary conditions. [...]

(Long pause at 4:44.) What you are involved in then is really, of course, a completely new educational procedure, so that you are at least able to distinguish one style of thought from another, and therefore be freer to make choices.

— this will help you understand about the platform that Ruburt imagines, and the inner procedure required for a session without a session.

[...] What Ruburt has in mind—and generally—this includes the ideas that you have given, Joseph, in the taped material—those procedures are indeed paying off. [...]

[...] This is a quite natural procedure. If you trust the body then you trust that procedure.

Framework 1, to some extent or another, however, is always influenced by Framework 2. There, the same correlations do not apply between the effort expended and the work performed, or the time required for such procedures. [...]

(A note: When Seth remarked about the pendant Nebene wore being an unorthodox procedure for those times, it reminded me that I’d had the same thought while doing the drawing. [...]

[...] When you work on individual notes, however, you are back in the more normal necessary method of procedure, where you must know what you have said in time, consecutively. [...]

[...] This is a rather extensive procedure, involving the right portions of the neck in particular also, and drawing in of course shoulder and trunk action. The resulting sensations may be unpleasant at times—but the entire procedure balances itself out so that no one area is under undue strain for any long period of time, as other areas unwind. [...]

[...] Now I want you, Joseph, to set up a procedure with a dream notebook at your side of the bed—a decent table or whatever to hold it, and a psychological set begun; for you have thus far not taken those simple important steps.

(Pause at 10:42.) Give us a moment… In your society scientific medical beliefs operate, and a kind of preventative medicine, mentioned earlier, in which procedures [of inoculation] are taken, bringing about in healthy individuals a minute disease condition that then gives immunity against a more massive visitation. In the case of any given disease this procedure might work quite well for those who believe in it. It is, however, the belief, and not the procedure, that works (louder).²

I am not recommending that you abandon the procedure when it obviously works for so many — yet you should understand why it brings about the desired results.

[...] (See the 620th session in Chapter Four.) Only when particular procedures are assigned to it, and when it is set aside from normal life, does hypnotic suggestion seem so esoteric. [...]

With the distortions present in organized procedures, however, and the misunderstandings of the practitioners, the phenomenon seems to show a different face indeed. [...]

Now I want you, in the same way, to picture his arms straight in normal position, and follow the same procedure. [...]

The present notes he has written to himself are highly effective, and he should follow them and the procedure they suggest. [...]

When you followed that procedure results appeared.

[...] Then you were told to put the words into sentences, and you followed the same procedure. [...]

The housecleaning procedures I mentioned should definitely be carried out. [...]

These procedures would have been of some help in the past, but now that the basic reason for the symptoms is conquered, the effectiveness of these methods should lead to the disappearance of all symptoms. [...]

[...] The procedure itself, the format of the sessions, will no longer need to be stressed, so that more energy can be given to the presented material itself. Until now, however, it was very important that the mechanics of the procedures were described, for the session format is of course part of the message. [...]

[...] Lucky ones like Ruburt went on chomping merrily with the teeth that were kept, and with the gums between that became quite adequate for the necessary procedures.

[...] There have been stresses laid, however, on the acts of eating that you could do without, and in your ways you have carried through the best procedure without knowing it, following the entire procedure for a short time, then dropping it, then continuing. [...]

[...] This exercise has another part: When you have finished the procedure just given, then change your viewpoint; see the event from the standpoint of someone else who is also involved. [...] See the episode through his or her eyes, then continue with the procedure just given, only using this altered viewpoint.