(Q) Do sedatives and hypnotics help or irritate me at the
present time?
(A) As given in relation to the effect of outside
influences, this means anything taken into the system of ANY
nature to become active upon the nervous system - or any
of those things that should be passive in the body. These
will be found to change as changes are coming about in the
system. At one time there will be found much irritation,
while the next day - or the next two or three days - the
sedatives would have a quieting effect for the system. It
is the same with ANY of those influences that do not work
in coordination.
Let's for the moment understand what is being accomplished
in the system, when it is given that the body is gradually
growing to be capable of depending on that created within
self:
In a physical normal body we find there are those organs
within the system that assimilate the elements, which are
in the material forces, to create that within the body -
through the assimilation of food, of thought, of the environs
- to not only meet the needs of the body but to supply that
which will bring resuscitation to all the forces within the
body. That is the normal condition.
With this body, [
911] we are speaking of, those elements
through pressures that have existed in the cerebro-spinal
system, in the upper dorsal and in reflex cervical areas,
have prevented organs of the system from supplying the
necessary elements for the carrying on of this resuscitation
through that taken in body for sustenance, in food, in
thought, in mind, in the attributes of the body. These have
for a great period been supplied by outside influences,
until there was not the NECESSITY for the body to create
those elements that would carry on the assimilations, that
would bring about these forces in the system.
Then, with these changes, that force, element or power,
that ORDINARILY would go to create this necessary element
in the system has been directed in other channels, that
brought irritation to the mental, the imaginative, and to
many of the organs even of the system.
This created, then, those elements of fear - aroused in the
coordination of the sympathetic and cerebro-spinal nerve
system by irritations in the ganglia that made connections
between these - that are of the nature as to produce this
nervousness, the irritable irritations that arise at periods
in the system.
To this has been added those influences to SUBDUE or
overcome these tendencies, through the use of hypnotics and
narcotics - or those sedatives that are both narcotic and
hypnotic in their effect. This of itself creates more of
the forces that are not being used nominally in the system,
and creates more to be rid of through the eliminations of the
system.
As to eliminations, we find these go off in certain
channels - either through the drosses of the system, through
eliminations through the functioning of the organs of the
pelvis, or through the periods, or through the respiratory
system, or through the breathing, or through the
perspiration, and the like.
These naturally, then, tend to create irritations in ALL
directions; so that as the system becomes more and more
accustomed to there being created the proper BALANCE in
the system, through the correction of those pressures that
have prevented organs from functioning in the normal manner,
there is created more desire - imaginative and real - within
the activities of the organs, the glands, the secreting
forces of the system.
With the recuperations, then, it may be expected that there
will come the greater periods of irritation MENTALLY; and
the resistance that will create even those forces warring
against those very best forces that would be magnified by
the system, so that CONTRARYWISE conditions arise; but in
the spirit of truth, in the spirit of the desire may the
body be in the attitude that "I will MEET all of these
conditions. I will MAKE the fight to restore to my body
that birthright, that it is capable of meeting all of these
conditions that would supply elements or influences towards
destructive forces"; and as we meet them by those elements
that are NORMALLY created, by the positive flow of blood
in the system that is not fired by resentment, not fired
with discontent, not fired with any elements that will make
for more and more irritation, we will find that the body
will become able to meet all. There is no reason that the
body should not, within six to eighteen months, be PERFECTLY
NORMAL, physically and mentally! If it is not, it is its
own fault! for the conditions are started right, for the
elements to become perfectly NORMAL! If there is no fight,
no resistance, there will still be more and more need for
those outside influences, in the form of those things to
create that to overcome, and it will require more and more,
and more and more, until it is not of itself at all, but that
created by itself through non-resistance!
(Q) Please describe the best ones I should use now, when
necessary.
(A) Keep as far from ANY as possible. When necessary,
use those hypnotics in the form that have been used, or
in those that are changing more and more; or these may be
changed so that they will be LESSENED from time to time;
that is, should the body find it impractical, impossible
to wear self out even in not taking any, then the Luminol
- and at the next period that it is found necessary, do
not increase this quantity but rather change to bromides,
or Bromidia, and fight it again and again! the next time
it becomes necessary, take Codol, or the like - but do not
build more and more, and more and more; rather fight to make
it less and less, and less.
(Q) What strength Luminol?
(A) Sufficient has been taken until the body knows! Why
seek to know that which is known within self? Know that it
MUST be reduced, if the body would fight against same!
(Q) When shall I eliminate sedatives and hypnotics entirely?
(A) When the body has builded within self that determination
"I will NOT!" and then DOES NOT!
(Q) Am I holding to my diet and program well enough?
(A) These are very good; and, as has been given, be RATHER
the boss OF the program than the program bossing you! and
you will find that more and more you are the control OF the
conditions, rather than the conditions controlling you!
Remember this, from which you are reasoning with yourself:
"THERE IS BEING CREATED WITHIN MY SYSTEM, THROUGH THE NORMAL
IMPULSES FROM THE ORGANS OF MY BODY, A BALANCE THAT IS
NORMAL! NORMAL TO OTHERS AS WELL AS MYSELF!"
"THAT THE SYSTEM HAS BECOME SO THAT IT RELIES UPON OTHER
INFLUENCES I KNOW, BUT I WILL BE THE BOSS!"
(Q) Why can I not reduce Insulin as has been indicated?
(A) It CAN, will the WILL be set! As has been seen and
shown, there are those periods when it becomes NECESSARY
that there be the return to even a GREATER quantity than
there has been used! This is not unreasonable! Be
reasonable with self; be reasonable with that which is
being attempted to be done! Consider this:
Compare self, as it were, (and it is in very much the
same condition) to an automobile that has been stuck in the
mud! There would be the rocking back and forth, and the
realization that it was going down deeper and deeper and
deeper - BUT, if you stopped, or if you went altogether dead,
would there be any pulling out? Put more force, more vim,
more power within self - and you'll move out!
Then the next reduction may be even greater than has
been before. Because you have to return again, don't get
discouraged - but know within self that the strength is
being builded and that it can be reduced! that "I WILL
reduce it", and you will! Change, of course, when these
changes come about. Do not expect that you will reduce same
and then add a whole lot more of those things, in foods or
activities, that will require the use of more - see?
(Q) Is there anything further I can do to eliminate nasal
discharge which causes so much trouble to this body, as has
been indicated?
(A) Through those same channels - that is, through the one
applying the manipulations for the body - WE would use the
sprays with the Ichthyol, in a very reduced strength, that
will be found by the one making the applications - and these
will clear up. These are the conditions that exist with
this; let's consider the whole body in the light of what has
been given:
As conditions become more and more normal, necessarily those
drosses must be eliminated from the system that have been
taken on more and more, that are not normal to the system,
in the form of drugs of one nature or another. They are to
be eliminated through one or the other of the channels of
eliminations of the body, as described. These drosses,
these ashes in the system, as it were, what do they attack?
The muco-membranes or the soft tissues in the various
portions of the body, often the very ducts themselves that
carry the lymph and the emunctory circulation. What is this?
The very life blood itself in serum form, that meets the
needs of conditions in gathering waste accumulations in body
for its distribution or elimination through some condition
or portion of the body; hence we will find there will be
periods when the throat, the eyes, the antrum, the nasal
cavities, the organs of the pelvis during the periods, will
become congested by the accumulations, and pain will ensue
through those functionings at the periods. There will be
periods when there will be the tendency for constipation.
There will be periods when the breathing, the heart's action,
will apparently be abnormal, when it is from those drosses
being distributed in the system - and NOT of the old trouble
itself, see?
So, in meeting the needs of the conditions, it is a battle,
to be sure! but who, with such abilities, SUCH an outlook,
isn't worthy of putting up a fight isn't worth much!
(Q) Are my sinuses draining properly?
(A) If they had been we wouldn't have suggested to add
something to the soft tissue! This we would do occasionally.
This is not an irritation other than sympathetically, through
the type or nature of conditions as described. Do not create
for self the attitude that "Now I've got sinus trouble - Now
I've got this trouble, that trouble or the other!" because
you'll have it! and you'll become a hypochondriac, should
these conditions continue! Know "I'm getting better." Know,
"I will meet these conditions as they come about." Know,
"I'm doing these in the proper way and manner, and it will
come about!"
(Q) What causes frequent loose bowels and much gas?
(A) We have just described the conditions, as to how various
portions are affected. In the bowel there is seen more of
the lymph and the emunctory and the glucose circulation than
in most portions of the system. Why? It is necessary for
the assimilation of that which is digestible, or digested in
the system, for the creating of those necessary elements to
carry on and to meet the resistances necessary through
conditions in the system; hence these conditions come and go.
Meet them as they arise.
(Q) Will the Forces please tell me what I should think and
work towards for the reconstruction of my life?
(A) Find first that which is the IDEAL; not physically,
but spiritually. What IS thy ideal? What THINKEST thou
of life? Why life at all? What is the purpose of life?
Then LOOK at self in relationship to that which is the ideal.
Let's illustrate:
There is some knowledge and understanding of what is the
ideal moral relationship with individuals in their various
walks of life, and as to what is the conception of the
Creator as respecting the consideration of Its (the
Creator's) creation. Follow it? See?
Then, as these are the ideal relationships, make for self
that thought that "THIS BODY, THIS MIND, IS BECOMING MORE
AND MORE NORMAL, AND CAPABLE OF MEETING AND DEALING WITH
ALL MANNERS OF RELATIONSHIPS, THAT WILL BE AS NEAR IN
KEEPING WITH THAT I HAVE SET AS MY IDEAL AS CIRCUMSTANCES,
SURROUNDINGS, CONDITIONS AT THE MOMENT PERMIT; AND I WILL
NOT ONLY THINK AND SAY I WILL ACT THAT WAY BUT I WILL DO IT!"
(Q) How long is it advisable for this body to remain at Va.
Beach?
(A) As long as it is deemed that it would be the better
policy for that which is being created in the system, for
the normalcy of the body physically and mentally. When the
conditions, the surroundings, have ceased to create that
for the body, then move! but do not, as has been warned,
be so quick in jumping at conclusions that the body does not
KNOW which way it's jumping!
(Q) Is it advisable that my parents should come down here
now?
(A) Be very advisable, as we would find.
(Q) Shall I have a treatment this afternoon, and then how
often?
(A) Have a treatment this afternoon and then when it is FELT
necessary; not before Monday and Tuesday.
(Q) Is there any message I should give my husband to prepare
him for the information concerning us to be given him in his
reading soon?
(A) Give him rather this message:
I BELIEVE, AS YOU MUST BELIEVE, THAT WHICH IS TO COME ABOUT
IN MY LIFE, YOUR LIFE, IS THAT THE CREATIVE FORCES, OR GOD,
HAS SEEN BEST FOR THE MENTAL, THE SPIRITUAL, AND THE PHYSICAL
DEVELOPMENT OF EACH.
We are through.
Three copies to Self
Copy to File
REPORTS
9/26/32 Mrs. [
911]'s husband secured a Physical Reading.
See
912-1, Par. 7-A, 11-A re their marriage.
10/12/32 Mrs. [
911] had a Physical Reading. See
911-5.
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