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DEaVF2 Chapter 7: Session 909, April 21, 1980 genetic deformities doodle gifted liabilities

(Long pause.) Your species as a species includes the idiot and the genius, the stupid and the wise, the athletic, the deformed, the beautiful and the ugly, and all variations in between. There are genetic cultures operating, then, of literally infinite variety (intently), and they each have their place and their reason, and they each fit into the overall picture—not only of man’s reality but of the planet’s reality, including all of nature.

Your religious ideas have often told you that deformities at birth were the result of the parents’ sins cast upon the children, or that another kind of punishment was involved in terms of “karma.” In terms of biology, people talk about coming from good stock or bad stock, and even those designations imply moral judgments.

The possibility of creative change must always be present to insure the species’ resiliency, and that resiliency can show in many ways—in conditions that you consider deformities, disabilities from birth, or in any physical variation from a hypothetical physical norm. You all look quite alike, with one head (amused), two arms and legs, and so forth, as a rule. Such differences or variations are very noticeable at a certain level, if you have more fingers than you are supposed to, or less, or two thumbs to a hand, or any other condition that is considered an abnormality.

DEaVF1 Chapter 6: Session 909, April 21, 1980 deformities genetic evidence encounters volumes

(Just before she took a nap this noon, Jane received a letter from a man who explained that he’d married a woman with genetic deformities of her hands. [...] Yet he still expressed sorrow, and asked: “Why?” He’s troubled by the challenges of one who has to live with a so-called deformed wife—and now a child—each day. [...]

[...] Then this afternoon she picked up from Seth that in a new chapter he’d explain how physical deformities are, among other things, manifestations of the great range of abilities encompassed within our species’ genetic pool, and that we retain such flexibility in case wide changes are ever needed. [...]

WTH Part Two: Chapter 12: June 16, 1984 genetic deficient divergent qualifications elasticity

[...] Because the reasons for any such conditions can be so diverse, then life should be encouraged even in the face of deformities. [...]

NoPR Part Two: Chapter 12: Session 649, March 19, 1973 race moral judgments wealth illness

[...] If you are bound and determined that “GOD” (in capitals and quotes) creates only “good,” then any physical deficiency, illness or deformity becomes an affront to your belief, threatens it, and makes you angry and resentful. [...]

SS Part One: Chapter 3: Session 520, March 25, 1970 permanent form environment constant thought

[...] Your body is not beautiful or ugly, healthy or deformed, swift or slow simply because this is the kind of body that was thrust upon you indiscriminately at birth. [...]

TES8 Session 388 December 20, 1967 daughter John wife Peg crippled

[...] (Long pause.) She was a rather handsome-looking young woman, though not of stable temperament, crippled but not deformed.

TPS5 Deleted Session May 28, 1979 faster Scout permission consoled ground

The withered foot (of my father) represented any and all deformities, and the great gap you felt existed between man’s ideal, and his actualization of it.

NoME Part Three: Chapter 7: Session 850, May 2, 1979 idealists idealism kill shalt Thou

[...] Some are born as dwarfs, or hairless, or with deformed or missing limbs. [...]

DEaVF1 Chapter 4: Session 895, January 14, 1980 David suffering illness science genetics

[...] A man might be born deformed or sickly because of the sins of his father.

TSM Chapter Eleven Sally Jon Ann Jim Lindens

[...] She was a handsome-looking young woman, crippled but not deformed. [...]