The Way Toward Health - February 15, 17 and 21, 1984

February 15, 1984

There are styles of thinking, just as there are various styles of dress.

The official line of consciousness is a certain mental stance, a kind of convention.  When you were a child you thought in a freer fashion, but little by little you were educated to use words in a certain way.  You discovered that your needs were met more quickly, and you received approval more often, when you thought and spoke in that particular manner.  Finally, it seemed to be the only natural mode of operation.  Your entire civilization is built around that kind of inner framework.  The way of thinking becomes so automatic as to be mentally invisible.  With creative people, however, there are always intrusions, hints or clues from ways of thinking that certainly appear foreign, and creative people use those hints and clues to construct an art, a musical composition or whatever.  They sense a surge of power beneath.

You and Ruburt have had the feelings many times – but what we are trying to do is change over completely from one mode of operation to another, and to construct, say, new inner blocks of meaning that will give rise to the next era.

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.

I did want to give you this material, and in a fashion this will help you understand about the platform that Ruburt imagines, and the inner procedure required for a session without a session.

February 17, 1984

I wanted to remind Ruburt of some material given several times in the past.

When an idea for a book or a poem comes to him, he “tunes into it” immediately.  It never occurs to him to wonder how many vowels or syllables, words and sentences, paragraphs or pages might be involved.  He takes it for granted that his intent will be executed.

That is the natural, creative way to function, and it has provided him with many excellent books and poetry.  When he is writing, he does not think in terms of impediments.  What impediments there may be, he brushes aside.

Now his health can be handled in the same fashion, without wondering how many nerves or muscles or stages must be activated, without worrying about how much time will be involved.  In a fashion, the body is a living book, being produced in every moment.

Again, it may seem too simple – but by applying the same methods to the body, the body’s health will be written with health and vitality, using blood and corpuscles, joints and ligaments and so forth instead of syllables, consonants, words and sentences.

February 21, 1984

Apropos the material I mentioned yesterday (about Jane’s symptoms, particularly her eyes).

Most such material is indeed given at a later date, though not always under the same heading or category, and often wound into another body of material.

Specifically, I wanted to make the point that the body’s actions are unfortunately often misread and misunderstood.  The body often clears out, or tires out, its own processes – perhaps by being feverish for several days, and then by lowering the temperature once unwanted materials are burned out, so to speak.

It may store urine to retain minerals at one time, and urinate seemingly to excess in another.  When the body is basically held in distrust, however, all such behaviour is considered dangerous and suspect.  Ruburt’s “cold”, the bothersome eyes, are all connected with unusual muscular activity of the jaws, head, shoulders, arms and hands.  In your terms, the conditions will right themselves, with the eye muscles being both more flexible and more elastic as needed.