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rhythmic heart beats, contented stomach
rumbles. To be bodies: recordings and pic-
tures of hideous, aged, diseased bodies fart-
ing, pissing, shitting, groaning, dying. To do
everything: man in a filthy apartment sur-
rounded by unpaid bills, unanswered letters,
jumps up and starts washing dishes and
writing letters. To do nothing: he slumps in a
chair, jumps up, slumps in chair, jumps up.
Finally, slumps in a chair, drooling in idiot
helplessness, while he looks at the disorder
piled around him. The reactive mind com-
mands can also be used to advantage with ill-
ness tapes. While projecting past cold sore
on to the subject’s face, and playing back to
him a past illness tape, you can say: to be
me, to be you, to stay here, to stay there, to
be a body, to be bodies, to stay in, to stay out,
to stay present, to stay absent. To what ex-
tent are these reactive mind phrases when
scrambled effective in causing disagreeable
symptoms in control volunteer subjects? As
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