The Way Toward Health - January 25 and 26 1984

January 25, 1984

… The Bible is a conglomeration of parables and stories, intermixed with some unclear memories of much earlier times.  The bible that you recognize – or that is recognized – is not the first, however, but was compiled from several earlier ones as man tried to look back, so to speak, and recount his past and predict his future.

Such bibles existed, not written down but carried orally, as mentioned some time ago, by the Speakers.  It was only much later that this information was written down, and by then, of course, much had been forgotten.  This is apart from the fact of tampering, or downright misinformation as various factions used the material for their own ends.

You mentioned the paternal feelings of your dream.  They allowed you to expand your experience while in the dream state.  This also presents you with an example of the ways in which early man expanded his own knowledge and experience in the dream state.  In the same way, as mentioned in Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, man also had dream images of actual geographical locations in which he had not physically traveled.

Now I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I speak – but know that I am present and approachable.

Chapter 2: Biologically Valid Thoughts, Attitudes, and Beliefs

January 26, 1984

When you are born, you possess a group of attitudes toward yourself and toward life.  These allow you to grow with the greatest possible impetus into childhood.  They are also important in every period of your life.  You can see the results in life all about you, though in animals or plants these are experienced as a matter of feelings rather than, say, as thoughts or attitudes.

It may sound very simplistic to tell you that you must have sunny thoughts as well as rays of the physical sun in order to be healthy – but sunny thoughts are as biologically necessary to your well-being as are the rays of the sun that shines in the sky.  Even as infants, then, you are predisposed naturally toward certain feelings, thoughts and attitudes that are meant to insure your healthy survival and emergence into adulthood.  These are actually composed of inbred psychological information as necessary and vital to your life as the data transmitted by your genes and chromosomes.  Indeed, these inbred, inner psychological predispositions are all-important if the information carried by your genes and chromosomes is to be faithfully followed.

It is difficult to translate such biological and psychological material into the words of any language, even though these inbred psychological prerequisites form a kind of language of their own.  It is a language that promotes growth, exuberance and fulfillment, and stimulates the entire organism of the body – signaling the proper responses that are required for health and growth.

Later we will discuss contrary feelings, thoughts, and beliefs that greatly curtail the natural progression of health and vitality.  Here, however, we will deal primarily with those inner predispositions that encourage life and vitality.