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From El Paso Workshop Sept. 1979<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[from Marsha: Where does illness come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow I never really thought about it and just depended on the opinion of doctors or others whom I accepted as older or wiser. Mostly I thought illness just happens and I had absolutely no control over it.\u00a0 As I see it, the thinking has just been handed down from generation to generation with no scrutiny. I was pretty amazed when I happened to transcribe this particular workshop tape knowing that Dr. Bob had been a medical doctor for many years..\u00a0 So here we go with the transcription. The El Paso workshop is on the website.]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So illness is suggested that some little entities up here\nfloatin\u2019 around is looking down on us like buzzards look on dead cows; and they\nsee somebody and they say, \u201cWell there\u2019s Agnes, I\u2019m gonna bite her.\u201d  Now that was one called arthritis we\u2019ll\nsay.  Then there\u2019s another one over there\ncalled measles; and there\u2019s another one over there called somethin\u2019 else; and\nthey look down at us and say, \u201cWell, I\u2019m gonna bite him.\u201d   Now that leaves you with what kind of a\nfeeling?  Tell me about that.  What kind of an emotion do you have when you\ndon\u2019t know when illness is going to \u201cstrike you down\u201d.  Would you have a certain anxiety about\nhealth? As you all have heard, cancer is rampant.  [noticing that this is 32 years later when\nthe statement was made]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In <\/em>1947, I was\npracticing medicine in Illinois.  There\u2019s\na little town called New Carmel; and at that time, I got a monthly newsletter from\nthe state medical society.  This\nparticular month, I don\u2019t remember exactly which month, but I know the year \u2013\n1947; and it said if we would contribute $10, the  state medical society would use it to promote\nus having more examinations for cancer than we were now having of which we had\nnone.  There was nobody came in and said\nI think I got cancer because I found a lumpy here or whatever.  They just didn\u2019t bother you (meaning the\ndoctor) about that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So they said they would do this \u2013 and that that would bring\nus a minimum of ten extra examinations that year which at $10 each and can you\neven remember when the examinations were $10? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this was done; and the second year you were to give them\nthe $100 that was made extra; and from then on, they said the public would pay\nfor the examinations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So they started promoting cancer in 1947 when an average of\none out of a hundred people had cancer. \nNow that is an exact statistic. \nYou can go back and look it up \u2013 don\u2019t take my word for it, find out!  Average of one person per hundred had cancer\nin any form in 1947.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it got advertising going \u2013 not as printed advertising ,\nbut propaganda \u2013 suggestion poured at people. \nIt increased the number of people who became concerned about cancer by ten\ntimes the first year at least.  And that\nmoney was turned into the state medical society; and they took all of that; and\nsince then the physician has only profited and never had to turn in because\nnow\/then the statistic says three out of four people will have cancer sometime\nduring their lifetime; and that\u2019s usually the last thing they have, you know \u2013\nis three out of every four which is 25 percent from one out of a hundred which\nis 1% — seems like a rather successful suggestion trip, doesn\u2019t it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now of course you know that cancer will strike most anybody anywhere;\nand also you know it\u2019s caused by eating bacon, breathin\u2019 air and now\/then all\nbeer except Coor\u2019s.  Now Coors will not\nproduce cancer; but all other brands of beer will now produce cancer if you\ndrink it \u2013 it\u2019s a carcegentic.  About\nanything and everything you touch is now carcegenic in some way or other, is\nthat right?  So what does this kind of suggestion\ndo \u2013 it produces anxiety.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it has been demonstrated beyond most any reasonable\ndoubt that anxiety will make you sick\u2026period! \nIf it doesn\u2019t make cancer, it\u2019ll still make something else so the suggestion\nand anxiety is well done anyway \u2013 it works 100% if you are anxious.  Now is most of the anxiety that we experience\n\u2013 a great amount of it is due to suggestion. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it\u2019s very easy to find that if we took the healthiest\nperson in here, we\u2019ll say Tico and everybody met him today and said, \u201cTico, you\nlook bad \u2013 you got a fever?  You feel\nbad?\u201d  Have you had an examination lately?  You look terrible?  I haven\u2019t seen you look this bad in all your\nlife.  And if we kept that up on him; and\nhe wasn\u2019t aware of it, he\u2019d be sick before long because you suggest him into\nbeing that way.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now suggestion as we said promises you either a great reward\nor threatens you with loss.  The ones\nthat offer you great reward, you have a tendency to pass off, is that right\nJim? They offer you some real big somethin\u2019, but you have a tendency not to buy\nthat one, is that right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Yeah, mainly because you start to doubt yourself and\nbelieve that they know more than you do.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right, that it\u2019s not gonna work; and that there\u2019s all kinds\nof obstructions; and more and more obstructions to that promise of  the real big somethin\u2019.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So there\u2019s a lot of people who go around giving positive\nsuggestion.  They don\u2019t usually get very\nfar; but the people who deal in negative suggestion, I\u2019ve noticed, do a great\njob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now what this all comes about is that we have what\u2019s called\nfaith.  Now we have tremendous faith in\ncatastrophe. (Audience reacts with lots of laughter).    We have tremendous faith in\ncatastrophe.  Check yourself out and\nsee?   You have very little faith in good\nfortune \u2013 check that out also?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[from Marsha: Here in 2020 with the coronavirus there has been tremendous negative suggestion from the healing arts, politics and the news. We are bombarded with suggestion of the fear of death 24 hours a day. It is terrifying to see so many people all over the globe living in fear of illness and death. What to do? What to believe? Each claims to be an authority and the degrees of fear are alarming \u2013 it has created conflict beyond what any of us could possibly imagine. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can be advantageous to go back to the website and research \u201cthe vicious cycle\u201d and \u201cthe living cycle\u201d and also how the body adapts to stress.]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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