The Way Toward Health Jan 6 and 7, 1984

January 6, 1984

The idea of the sinful self will not be predominant in our own book, but we certainly will delve into the many unfavorable concepts that are held by the various religions – concepts that certainly make many people feel that the self is indeed sinful rather than blessed.

The self is indeed blessed, and just the reminder of that fact can often short-circuit negative beliefs, particularly if they are not too deep-seated.

As far as Ruburt’s motions are concerned, the body is following its own rhythms, which will sometimes involve overt, noticeable exercise and activity on the one hand, while on the other it exercises internally, so to speak, making all preparations for the other later exercises and motion.  It seemed, for example, sudden when Ruburt fed himself, even if briefly, but that exterior improvement followed many inner manipulations, which until then had not connected in that particular manner.

Reading some of the earlier sessions of this sequence also serves to remind you both of the progress that has taken place since those sessions began, and therefore invite even newer improvements.

I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms, but know that I am indeed, once more, present and approachable.

January 7, 1984

The body consciousness, on its own, is filled with exuberance, vitality, and creativity.

Each most microscopic portion of the body is conscious, strives toward its own goals of development, and is in communication with all other parts of the body.

The body consciousness is indeed independent.  To a large degree its own defense mechanisms protect it from the mind’s negative beliefs – at least to a large extent.  As I have mentioned before, almost all persons pass from a so-called disease state back into healthy states without ever being aware of the alterations.  In those cases, the body consciousness operates unimpeded by negative expectations or concepts.

When those negative considerations are multiplied, however, when they harden, so to speak, then they do indeed begin to diminish the body’s own natural capacity to heal itself, and to maintain that overall, priceless organization that should maintain it in a condition of excellent strength and vitality.

There are also occasions when the body consciousness itself rises up in spite of a person’s fears and doubts, and throws aside a condition of illness in a kind of sudden victory.  Even then, however, the person involved has already begun to question such negative beliefs.  The individual may not know how to cast them off, even though he or she desires to do so.  It is in those instances that the body consciousness arises and throws off its shackles.

With free will, however, it is not possible for the body consciousness to be given full and clear dominion, for that would deny large areas of choices, and cut off facets of learning.  The main direction and portent, however, of the body consciousness on its own is always toward health, expression, and fulfillment.

The molecules, and even the smaller aspects of the body act and react, communicate, cooperate with each other, and share each other’s knowledge, so that one particle of the body knows what is happening in all other parts.  Thus, the amazing organization usually works in a smooth, natural fashion.  Many body events that you think of in your society as negative – certain viruses, for example – are instead meant as self-corrective devices, even as fever actually promotes health rather than impedes it.

The main characteristic of bodily consciousness is its spontaneity.  This allows it to work at an incredibly swift rate that could not be handled by the topmost conscious portions of the mind.  Its operation is due to an almost instantaneous kind of consciousness, in which what is known is known, with no distance between, say, the knower and the known.

The act of seeing, and all of the body’s senses, are dependent upon this inner spontaneity.