From TNT “Acting and Feeling”
{from Marsha…..Long ago I was diagnosed with retinitis pigmatosa which is a deterioration of the rods and cones in the retina. It is a slow degeneration and has proceeded as predicted. The doctor told me it was a hereditary disease and created a lot of fear. I lived with that fear of passing it on to my children and recently my eye doctor said it was not hereditary. I felt such relief after living with the suggestion for so many years. So in transcribing the above Tuesday night Talk, Dr. Bob says:….}
Question from the audience:
(Will you talk about hereditary disease because told that by my doctor’s.)
It was hereditary?
( Yes, how much does your own belief system count in these matters and could one alter that?)
Disease is a normal adaptation to your own state of stress. Now the fact that the doctor you went to see couldn’t find out what was goin’ on; and he didn’t understand; and so in order to some way explain it to you when you kept sayin’ “Why did I get this?” he said it was hereditary.
But now if you carry that idea back for a while — if you inherited it from your grandmother, then she had to inherit it from her great grandmother or somebody back down the line then Adam was a sick old guy! Howling laughter from the audience.
He was damn sick. So let’s forget that one while we’re at it – without further noise about it, huh?
{from Marsha….After I also had a good laugh, I can’t tell you how much relief I felt. How amazing a suggestion can get in there when we accept the medical profession as being infallible and turn our well-being over to an institution.}