This was the Key to our group work - a reversal of thinking
was necessary in order to accept that all difficulties encountered were in oneself and that we owed a debt to all who, through our
reaction to them, were the means of shewing us something about ourselves. Normally one thinks that other people make difficulties.
It took a long time to become aware that all irritation, exasperation, anger, were the result of one's own mechanical habits of
reacting to certain manifestations in other people.

The first thing that Dr Nicoll made him aware of was the
expediency of not insisting that everyone should see things from his own view-point and of not wounding anyone by word or deed. Then he stressed the importance of relaxing and suggested
that relaxed muscles prevented the creation of antagonism in others and pointed out that such relaxation enabled a man to pa:s
through dangers unmolested, as Christ passed unnoticed through a crowd. He used Mr Bush's knowledge ofju-jitsu to provide an
analogy to shew that psychologically also it is possible to conquer
by yielding so that one's opponent is overbalanced by the force of his own momentum. Through his understanding of these three things Mr Bush came to approach life differently.

In July 1 92 1 Dr Nicoll recorded in his diary:
Thinking of making a book of Freud's theory versus Jung
in detail.
On 9th August the following entry was made
:
Prayer to Hermes. Teach me - instruct me - shew me the Path, so that I may know certainly - help my great ignorance, illumine my
darkness? I have asked a question.

 Anyway one morning you came down on a nice hot day in your skimpy costume and you sat down next me and said : 'Is there anything wrong
with this house?' So I said: 'Well, there arc things said about this place. That is why we got it cheap.' And you said, 'There is a woman with half a face in my room and she put it on my pillow and I felt horrible' and I understood you could not sleep afterwards very well.

A man begins to grow old as soon as he looks back. In this way he has 'old phases' - which are temporary - during his
existence; phases in which he looks longingly back at a lost
love, or at a past success which the present denies him. Such
phases are of extreme danger, for if prolonged the mind may become a veritable pillar ofsalt But some minds become
permanently old even before the full maturity of the physical body. One finds examples of these in that large and everpresent class of men whose thoughts dwell continually on
their school or college days, as if fascinated by some misty
glory ofwhich the present and future are both totally devoid. They are cases of arrested development, and their vision
cripples them.