The mind's interference with the body, pharmaceuticals, and the body's design

Before Frederick can continue, the Wonders correct an earlier understanding: the physical body is not the creation of the mind.

On incarnating one enters a body that is already there and then creates the mind, which accepts the body — though the mind then does interfere with the body's ability simply to exist.

The body can naturally balance itself to health, but the mind's worrying and its judgments of incapacity produce sore and atrophying muscles, stress, tension, hunched shoulders, a misaligned spine, headaches and sciatica, and can create cancer, heart disease, panic attacks and even death.

Asked why he has always been reluctant to take pharmaceutical drugs, they say part of that awareness came from his mind, which did not want the competition since pharmaceuticals force the body in a direction just as the mind does, and part from the self, which recognises that such forcing is often not beneficial.

Nevertheless pharmaceuticals do have a place: if the body is suppressed physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually and is invaded by a bacterium it cannot handle, an antibiotic may preserve life where a natural product would not be enough.

They never say not to use them, only to use them sparingly — perhaps one case in a hundred thousand is genuinely warranted — because society has made them the norm in place of changing the mind.

A broken arm is better properly reset, since infection can kill.

Frederick realises he has been forcing health with his mind instead, which is also interference.

They repeat that the body was designed to last 10,445 years with no built-in obsolescence, unlike a car, and that it does not because the mind creates death; most people, told of that lifespan, react with dismay rather than seeing the opportunity to explore the universe and still not finish.