With these I have dealt in an earlier volume of this treatise. They are right in their effort to make the patient change his emotional attitudes and to react to life and circumstances and people along a different line. This renders their activities futile, except from the character angle. When they do bring about a healing, it is because in any case the patient was predestined to recover, but they have served a useful purpose in correcting a character condition in which he was in constant danger of disease. They have not wrought a cure, and in claiming it both the healer and the patient are deceived.
All deception is dangerous and hindering.
It might be of service here if I indicate along broad and general lines some of the types of disease which a centralization of the life force upon the astral plane, for instance, could produce. I am endeavoring at this time to promote certain basic acceptances - such as the fact of the existence of the etheric body. Constant introspection, all forms of morbid suppression and a too drastically enforced silence where fundamental emotions are concerned can lead to serious liver trouble, to constant gastric difficulties and to cancer. Needless to remark, there are many such unmarried people who face life wholesomely and do not come under this category. To a constant effort to attract the attention of the opposite sex until it reaches a point where it becomes a nervous and most unwholesome tendency.