THE GIFTED AND
THE HANDICAPPED.

(Pause at 9:34.) Give us a moment…. Next chapter (7): “Genetics and Reincarnation. Gifts and ‘Liabilities.’ The Vast Sweep of the Genetic and Reincarnational Scales. The Gifted and the Handicapped.”

(Very slowly:) For a while you (underlined) considered the possibility of adopting a “handicap,” such as one might in sports. [...]

(Long pause.) Your purposes meant that you required a certain amount of isolation from the world—so any handicap that was accepted would also be one that fit into those other purposes. [...]

[...] They represented a kind of psychological handicap. [...]

[...] The attributes that can result in the supposedly handicapped, then, are needed to keep our species adaptable in many, and often unexpected, ways. [...]

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[...] The handicapped are often given messages, even by the medical profession, that make them feel like misfits, unworthy to survive. [...]

[...] I’m somewhat handicapped because I don’t have the Sinful Self material to compare anything to, but I’m sure there are many connections between the two. [...]

[...] I realize that the very handicaps adopted could also be part of the given personality’s overall plan for life—contending with that as well as the gifts. [...]

[...] They may appear as the handicapped. [...]

The statement also applies to people who have genetic handicaps. [...]

[...] He doesn’t want people to apply that to genetic handicaps…. [...]

In connection with the Turkish life, you decided upon certain handicaps this time. [...]

[...] When the two of you took up together for the reasons given, you decided upon a further handicap, though you had not specifically chosen one.

[...] There is no need for a handicap of any kind. [...]

[...] I was upset, thinking that if she couldn’t read it would be a great handicap, especially since we’d started up the sessions again. [...]

(Bert C.: “What recourse would the poor individual who was born with all of these seemingly insurmountable handicaps have, were she to say consciously, at the ego level, ‘I just don’t want any of this. [...]

[...] This line of belief continues as follows: If your talent is extremely unique or original, it may be safer to deny it entirely, or to adopt some disability or handicap that will quell the jealousy or envy of others who might otherwise hunt you down.

No one begins a race with a handicap, you may say, but that is obviously not the case. [...]

[...] And as she has done so often recently, she began without wearing her glasses, not appearing at all handicapped.)

([Daniel:] “What recourse would the poor individual who was born handicapped have with all of these other seemingly insurmountable difficulties? [...]

[...] She said being without glasses seemed to be no handicap.

[...] You can see how handicapped we both are because of the difficulties involved in trying to explain inner data in terms of outer data. [...]

[...] You can see how handicapped we both are because of the difficulties involved in trying to make you understand inner data in terms of outer data, when the two are so apart, really, even while they are so closely connected. [...]

[...] It was somewhat of a handicap in writing; the hand, having a different feeling as it held the pen, made me concentrate more on the simple physical act of putting the words down. [...]

(Seth got to the point quicker than I did with the pendulum, although I was somewhat handicapped through lack of time. [...]