Let There Be Light Page #4

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There you are.

You can't even remember about

the food, and the lack of food.

I have in mind my own

childhood, where,

coming from a moderate family...

moderate in the sense that the

family

had some sense of security.

What happened there was we were

told that we...

I mean, myself, my brothers and

sisters,

we couldn't just play with any

of the kids

we wanted to play with, unless

their parents in turn

had the equivalent of what our

parents had.

And as a result, we were kept in

a narrow circle,

very, very, narrow.

However, I have found that there

has been a strong yearning

on my part to break out of this

environment,

to be able to play with Tom,

Dick, and Harry.

I say the net result's like

this.

Your mother did not feel really

so superior.

She felt inferior when she tried

to make you take the attitude

you were better than the other

children,

so that now certain experiences

in the Army

have brought that out more

clearly,

because you've been thrown in

with Tom and Dick and Harry,

and need to get along with them.

It's not necessary to be in the

Army.

It's not necessary to be in the

war.

These kind of troubles have

always gone on

in all time through all the

centuries.

You were going to say something.

I never spoke until I

was seven.

Is that right?

Yes, sir.

And I stuttered very bad.

At 14 and 15 I couldn't recite

in school.

Today I'm able to talk.

Can you explain how you got

started to talk,

how you began to get over that?

During the war, the

first word I ever spoke,

Santa Claus had brought me a war

gun, and my brother broke it.

This is the First World

War, yes.

And so I...

Santa Claus was not in

your...

When I went in to get

my gun, I just said...

walked in, "Somebody broke my

gun."

That was the first thing I said.

You were angry because

someone broke your gun.

So that's the way I

started talking.

I would say all those

symptoms,

like being unable to speak,

stuttering and so on,

they have an underlying anger

and resentment

in the deeper parts of the

personality.

You could almost say it like

this.

Underneath "I can't" you usually

find "I won't."

Stuttering on Okinawa,

I was stuttering too,

about three weeks.

And as soon as I came here...

I've been here a month now...

I stopped stuttering.

You've stopped stuttering

completely since you came here.

Yes, sir.

Well, that's good.

I don't know whether that's a

tribute to the doctors

or a tribute to your fundamental

health.

It's due to my

fundamental self.

No tribute to the doctors

at all.

No, sir.

Very good.

Some patients require

special therapy.

Hypnosis is often effective

in certain types of battle

neuroses, such as amnesia.

This man does not even remember

his own name.

A shell burst in Okinawa wiped

out his memory.

The experience was unendurable

to his conscious mind,

which rejected it, and along

with it, his entire past.

Through hypnotic suggestion,

the psychiatrist will attempt to

evoke them.

Relax completely, and put

your mind on going to sleep.

All right, now, keep your eyes

on mine,

keep your eyes on mine, and keep

them fixed on mine.

Keep your mind entirely on

falling asleep.

You're going to go into a deep

sleep as we go in.

You're going to go into a deep

sleep as we go in.

Now clasp your hands in front of

you.

Clasp them tight, tight, tight,

tight, tight.

They're getting tighter and

tighter and tighter,

and as they get tighter, you're

falling asleep.

As they get tighter and you're

falling asleep,

your eyes are getting heavy,

heavy.

Now your hands are locked tight.

They're locked tight.

They're locked tight.

You can't let go.

They're locked tight.

You can't let go.

When I snap my fingers, you'll

be able to let go.

When I snap my finger, you'll be

able to let go,

and then you'll get sleepier,

and your eyes are getting

heavier.

Now your eyes are getting

heavier, heavier, heavier.

You're going into a deep, deep

sleep.

You're going into a deep, deep

sleep.

Deep asleep, far asleep.

Eyes are now closed tight,

closed tight.

Going to a deep, deep sleep.

Deeply relaxed, far asleep.

You're far asleep.

You're far asleep.

Now you're in a deep sleep.

You have no fear, no anxiety.

No fear, no anxiety.

Now you're in a deep, deep,

sleep.

Now just sit down in the chair

behind you.

Sit down in the chair behind

you.

Lean back.

Head now falls forward into a

deep, deep sleep.

Head now is falling forward.

You're going further and further

and further asleep.

When I stroke, your left arm

will become rigid

like a bar of steel,

and you'll go further asleep and

further asleep.

You're falling further and

further and further asleep.

Rigid.

Cannot be bent or relaxed.

When I touch the top of your

head,

when I touch the top of your

head, that arm will relax,

and the other will become rigid,

and you'll go further asleep.

You'll be in a very deep sleep.

And your sleep is deeper and

deeper.

Now when I touch this hand, my

finger will be hot.

When I touch this hand, my

finger will be hot.

You will not be able to bear it.

Your arm is rigid.

And now, as I touch your hand,

you will no longer feel any pain

there.

It will be normal.

Now the arm is relaxed,

and you're further and further

and further asleep.

Now you're deep asleep.

We're going back.

We're going back now.

Going back to Okinawa.

Going back to Okinawa.

You can talk.

You can talk.

You can remember everything.

You can remember everything.

You're back on Okinawa.

Tell me what you see.

Tell me.

Speak.

I'm in the battery

area.

You're in the battery area.

Go on, tell me what's going on.

Getting fire missions.

You're getting fire

missions.

Go on.

You see everything now clearly.

Getting shells thrown

at us.

You're getting shells

thrown at you.

From where?

Japs.

Japs. Go on.

Yes.

Keep on.

You remember it all now.

Every bit of it's coming back.

Japs getting near us

to get our position.

Japs getting near you to

get your position.

Go on.

Told us to get cover.

Who told you to get cover?

BC.

BC.

Go on.

They spotted us.

One of the boys got hurt.

One of the boys got hurt.

Took him away.

Yes, go on.

You remember it now.

Tell me.

It's all right now, but you can

tell me.

You can tell me.

Explosion.

Yes.

You remember the explosion now.

All right, go on.

They're carrying me.

They're carrying you.

Who's carrying you?

I don't know.

Where are they taking you?

Carrying me across the

field.

Across the field.

Go on.

Put me on a stretcher.

Yes?

Yes?

Go on.

They're still throwing

shells.

Yes, can you hear them?

Yes.

You see them?

No.

All right.

Where are they taking you now?

In a truck.

Why are you fearful now?

I want no more of this.

You don't want any more.

No.

You want to forget it.

But you're going to remember it,

because it's gone now.

It's gone.

You're back here now.

You're away from Okinawa.

You've forgotten it.

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