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[... 6 paragraphs ...]
Our other friend (Brad) is playing with his crutches—tossing them in the air a bit—practicing a two-step without them. But we need more than that. You have book one of the material. I tell you that that information is practical information. You can put it to use. I am flattered that you pick it up and look at it now and then. You may have it bound in gold or leather and keep it as a keepsake. But it will do you little good unless you use it.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
I tell you now—and for the sake of our guests—that death is not sober and it is not death. You simply take a giant step forward. And as my friends know that I will, I will tell you that all vitality rings...and it rings through this frame and it rings through your own frame—and it is lighthearted; and it is joyful; and it knows not sobriety; as you know, it is a lighthearted thing.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Open up the gates of your consciousness while you sleep! You know you are more than what you refer to as your “conscious I,” but you should know it through experience! Open up the barriers in your daily lives—step outside of the self that you know—and you will solve your difficulties! You will solve them and you will know that you have done so. You will know that the ability is within yourself and you have used it—then you may hit me over the head with your crutches and I will laugh!
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
You must dissociate yourself from the person that you know. Close your eyes. Imagine anything that you like that is pleasant to you. It makes no difference what it is. Then imagine yourself stepping apart from yourself in whatever way you choose. And then imagine that all about you there is another dimension and you need only take one step at a time—and you will find your answers. You have only to begin. There is an adventure and it is within you. And there are answers, and they are within you—and you can find them. Now. You have more questions?
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
I do, indeed. Not the church—but any church. Do not your ideas already leap over the fences and the fields? And do you not already feel hampered within the environment in which you have spent so much time? And are you not only now—and even reluctantly—taking small steps where you would take giant steps? You do not need to answer.
[... 12 paragraphs ...]