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Some of this has to do with fear and expectation, and the fact that your mother had false teeth. You are afraid of losing them. I suggest you examine your beliefs therefore concerning teeth, age, and in connection with your parents. Does that answer your question?

(After the session I told Jane that my pendulum had told me that my tooth was bothering me because I was worried about her teeth these weeks. I hadn’t asked the pendulum questions about my attitudes toward teeth and my parents, though I had suspicions as to my beliefs in those areas. Seth was quite accurate here. He was also correct about my going to the dentist for security reasons, etc. Yet overall I hadn’t been able to break the tooth-worry habit, while knowing I should.

You are in excellent health. You are free of physicians, yet in the area concerning your teeth, you still believe that you must go to dentists. You use that area to give you, in your own fashion, a feeling of security: there you are relating in old ways, not only getting your checkups as you should, but seeing the dentist as more than that. That represents the one physical area concerning health in which you are not fully relying upon yourself, or new beliefs. That is, these have not yet taken hold.

The particular individual reason for any given difficulty makes little difference in the overall pattern, as long as you believe that your teeth are vulnerable. It is the one portion of your body, the mouth, that you have so far been willing to “sacrifice” to old mass beliefs.

(Yesterday at the dentist’s I learned through X-ray that I have two bad teeth on the lower right jaw that must be taken out. This after the pendulum had insisted many times over the past few weeks that the teeth were perfectly all right. [...] My pendulum told me often that the teeth were responding to my negative projections that the two volumes of “Unknown”weren’t going to make much of an impression in the mundane world, no matter what we said or did.

You did not want the teeth to be bad—natural enough. The level you reached was one that responded to that fear, that perhaps the teeth were bad. [...]

[...] As far as the teeth are concerned, you are, as you said, surrounded by a sea of beliefs, so that the teeth are considered not long-lasting. [...]

In the case of the teeth in particular, the pendulum’s answer was not “devious.” [...]

(10:27.) Ruburt will have no difficulty with his teeth (on Wednesday). His body is vastly releasing in the head and neck areas, and he is using the symbolism of the teeth to rid himself of several important problems.

[...] On Wednesday Jane had several lower teeth extracted here at the house by Paul O’Neill. [...]

People have difficulties with their teeth in modern times, particularly, for many reasons—but mainly because it is one accepted area for the difficulty to show itself, and because the dentist’s cosmetics can indeed repair the appearance. At least in some historic periods, people kept their teeth longer, knowing that nothing could be done to repair the damage. [...]

(Seth talked about teeth tonight because of my visit to the dentist today, in an effort—apparently successful—to save a front capped tooth which had suddenly begun to act up. [...] In addition, Jane also has tooth trouble—one of her bottom teeth is loosening....)

[...] The matter of a bad tooth, or teeth, is not to be overlooked, but it should not be an occasion to put the self down, the cause of self-accusing thoughts, or bring about unfortunate feelings of inferiority.

[...] Most likely this was my interpretation of her giving birth to the child; she was supposed to have a Caesarean section but didn’t and was in labor 25 hours; a woman is described here, gray hair, buck teeth, yellow teeth—this, Barb says, is a description of the man’s mother—she wanted him to marry Barb: teeth not really buck but protuberant and yellowed; also gray hair. [...]

(After my nap, she ate well for supper, and said she was getting used to the teeth more. [...] In fact, while she was eating I forgot that she had the new teeth, so well did she do. [...]

[...] This noon Paul O’Neill left me at the house Jane’s new lower teeth, so I could take them to her. [...]

(Jane tried the new teeth before lunch, after I’d turned her. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session, and did very well, considering the new teeth. [...]

[...] Ruburt can save the majority of his teeth. [...] In certain times people lost their teeth, when they did, as Ruburt has, and in a natural fashion. [...] 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.

[...] If he does not have his teeth out, he will probably lose two more that are very loose—but not for one or two years. By that time the rest of the teeth will be solid enough to stay in his head, and be operative. [...]

(I also asked that Seth comment on Jane’s teeth, and on the “bug,” or whatever, that I’d been really bothered by for the last two weeks. [...]

A small note: Ruburt’s teeth would have been gone entirely 5 or 6 years ago had he gone to a dentist, if that is any consolation.

The work of the jaws necessitates the actions occurring, and if the new jaws end up with new teeth (humorously), that must not be considered a failure or a tragedy. That fear is precisely what keeps Ruburt from saving the teeth so far. The teeth business has to do also with Darwinian concepts of age, with thought of the animal not surviving, and in your world that is ridiculous. [...] He must not be so afraid, then, of losing the teeth—and then perhaps he can save them. [...]

[...] The idea of Ruburt’s teeth should be dropped, however. The concern over the matter becomes far more an impediment than any actual loss of his teeth. Yes, beliefs could save the rest of them—but both of your interpretations about teeth at this point hold you back. [...]

[...] This is separate and the woman here…a strong school connection again…3 o’clock or late afternoon…number 414…now this could be the hour 4:14 or month…I do not know…Green room…202 or 213..whether this is a month or year or house number I don’t know…a grip…a strong grip…in the afternoon…in a room…a woman, gray hair, buck teeth…yellow teeth…She yells out and calls and a young boy comes in blue clothes & bicycle…I think he rides….It’s 1943 or 1947…Room is green…yellow…Room is green…no, cream…yellow…it’s afternoon…..

Again, some teeth are relatively loose, and one in particular. [...] When this is accomplished the teeth will tighten again naturally, and are. [...]

[...] If the teeth were saved though too, that would apply.

(Because her teeth were bothering her so, Jane couldn’t eat what we’d ordered for lunch—turkey tetrazzini—so she substituted dry cereal. [...] And we don’t even know yet when Paul O’Neill will be in to take care of having her lower teeth relined. [...]

(Jane ate well, although her teeth are bothering her. [...]

[...] He said he’ll be at the hospital to see Jane at about 6:00 PM tomorrow—Tuesday, to take impressions for her teeth. [...]

[...] “Seth—how about his teeth?”)

[...] This is being done so that the teeth are not being put under undue stress. [...]

(“Well, you’ve covered everything on his list except the bit about his teeth and gums.”)

(“Can the teeth straighten out?”)

The teeth can straighten out. [...]

[...] I’m very sensitive to tooth troubles, of course, and probably project some of this upon others; but Jane’s losing the tooth reminded me of Seth’s very recent declaration that she might lose more teeth because of the relaxation taking place in her jaws. We’ll see whether she can retain her two front teeth, which shifted their position at once after the eye tooth dropped out.

[...] I might add that although Seth said losing the teeth was a minor thing, comparatively, it doesn’t seem so to us. [...] She remarked upon her own beliefs about teeth—something she’d had no trouble with for many years.)

[...] There are more people than you know, relying upon the best medical knowledge of the society, who are in far worse shape, whether or not the condition is observable—millions, incidentally, with false teeth.

[...] His teeth are very loose on the tops. [...]

The situation with the eyes today, however, can be used as a basis to lead to an understanding that the same can happen with the teeth. [...]

[...] The teeth move about, the loose ones, as the jaw changes its positions. [...]

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

[...] Teeth.

[...] I have mentioned this before: the parent saying “Brush your teeth,” means “Your teeth are beautiful and healthy. [...]

[...] The child, however, according to circumstances, may hear only the order “Brush your teeth.”

[...] The child may think “My teeth are fine, why yell at me to brush them?” Ruburt thinks “What is there that allows you to speak your concern more actively than your love?” He is verbally oriented. [...]

[...] He applied tension to the head and neck area primarily, causing the difficulty with the teeth and so forth. [...]