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specify the danger. It is geared to act in your simplistic, yet they relieve tension in a way that
protection. It builds up strong stresses, therefore, so your public health announcements cannot do.
that on many occasions a specific disease or threat
situation is manufactured to rid the body of a Session 805, Page 50 "The original happening is
tension grown too strong to bear. experienced from a different perspective on the part
of each person involved, of course, so that the
Session 805, Page 48 "Unfortunately, many of your event s implications and basic meanings may differ
public health programs, and commercial statements according to the focus of each participant.
through the various media, provide you with mass
meditations of a most deplorable kind. I refer to Session 806, Page 57 "Each one brings to it his or
those in which the specific symptoms of various her own background, temperament, and literally a
diseases are given, in which the individual is further thousand different colorations --so that the event,
told to examine the body with those symptoms in while shared by others, is still primarily original to
mind. I also refer to those statements that just as each person.
unfortunately specify diseases for which the
individual may experience no symptoms of an Session 806, Page 57 "In certain terms the past,
observable kind, but is cautioned that these present, and future [of your present life] are all
disastrous physical events may be happening compressed in any given moment of your
despite his or her feelings of good health. experience. Any such moment is therefore a
gateway into all of your existence.
Session 805, Page 48 "The breast cancer
suggestions associated with self-examination have Session 806, Page 59 "Christianity has become,
caused more cancers than any treatments have cured. however, a tangled sorry tale, its cohesiveness
They involve intense meditation of the body, and largely vanished. Such a religion becomes isolated
adverse imagery that itself affects the bodily cells. from daily life.
Session 805, Page 48 "Your current ideas of Session 814, Page 66 "Medical men, for example,
preventative medicine, therefore, generate the very are often extremely unhealthy because they are so
kind of fear that causes disease. They all undermine saddled with those specific health beliefs that their
the individual s sense of bodily security and attention is concentrated in that area more than
increase stress, while offering the body a specific, others not so involved.
detailed disease plan. But most of all, they operate
to increase the individual sense of alienation from Session 814, Page 68 "The idea of prevention is
the body, and to promote a sense of powerlessness always based upon fear -for you do not want to
and duality. " prevent something that is joyful. Often, therefore,
preventative medicine causes what it hopes to avoid.
Session 805, Page 48-49 "Your medical Not only does the idea [of prevention] continually
commercials are equally disease-promoting. Many, promote the entire system of fear, but specific steps
meaning to offer you relief through a product, taken to prevent a disease in a body not already
instead actually promote the condition through stricken, again, often set up reactions that bring
suggestion, thereby generating a need for the about side effects that would occur if the disease
product itself. " had in fact been suffered.
Session 805, Page 49 "Is it true that your food Session 814, Page 68 "Not only does television
contains chemicals it did not in years past. Yet actually serve as a mass means of communal
within reason man is biologically capable of meditation, but it also presents you with highly
assimilating such materials, and using them to his
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detailed, manufactured dreams, in which each life circumstances in order to participate in affairs
viewer shares to some extent. that seem to have greater import than those
possessed by previous humdrum existences. They
Session 815, Page 73 "Television interacts with seek the excitement, whatever its consequences.
your lives, but it does not cause your lives. It does They become a part of history to whatever extent.
not cause the events that it depicts. For once their private lives are identified with a
greater source -and from it many derive new
With your great belief in technology, it often seems strength and vitality. Social barriers are dropped,
to many people that television causes violence, for economic positions forgotten. The range of private
example, or that it causes a love of overmaterialism, emotions is given greater, fuller, sweep. "
or that it causes unloose morals. Television reflects.
In a manner of speaking it does not even distort, Session 821, Page 99 "The majority of my readers
though it may reflect distortions. The igniters and have come down with one or another disease
actors of television dramas are attuned to the mass usually considered very dangerous, and without
mind. They are not leaders or followers. They are ever knowing it, because the body healed itself
creative reflectors, acutely aware of the overall, normally and naturally the disease was not labeled.
generalized emotional and psychic patterns of the It was not given recognition as a condition. Worries
age. or fears were not aroused, yet the disease came and
vanished. "
Session 815, Page 74 "There is no such thing as a
chance encounter. No death occurs by chance, nor Session 821, Page 101 "The word ego is much
any birth. In the creative atmosphere of Framework bandied about, and in many circles it has a poor
2, intents are known. In a manner of speaking, no reputation. It is, however, as I use it, a term meant
act is private. to express the ordinary conscious directive portion
of the self. It is your conscious version of what you
Session 815, Page 76 "What then is myth, and what are --an excellent description, if I do say so myself.
do l mean by the term? Myth is not a distortion of It is directed outward into the physical world. It is
fact, but the womb through which fact must come. also aware, however, of some of your unconscious
Myth involves an intrinsic understanding of the activities. It is the you identify with, so it is aware
nature of reality, couched in imaginative terms, of your dreams, for example, as you are, and it is
carrying a power as strong as nature itself. " quite conscious of the fact that its existence rests
upon knowledge that is does not itself possess. As
Session 815, Page 83 "Yet all that you know or you have an ego, fully conscious, directed toward
experience has its origin in that creative dimension the physical world, you also have what I call an
of existence that I am terming Framework 2. " inner ego, directed toward inner reality. You have,
in other words, a portion of yourself that is fully
Session 817, Page 83 "The encounters themselves conscious in Framework 2.
occur in a Framework 3 environment. That
framework of course, again in terms of an analogy, Session 822, Page 103-104 "The unconscious, so-
exits another step away from your own Framework called, is --and I have said this before --quite
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