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Now, I will tell you. In many ways, you are indeed children. And because you do not understand the truths and have not reached or understood the connections, it does not mean that the truths do not exist. And you must work towards them and use your mind to do so. It will not lead you astray. You can trust it—it will help you arrive at some questions.
You are playing games with yourselves. You are using your mind, but you are not using it correctly. You are using it to mask the true questions. You are setting up a game of checkers—one part of you is playing one game and another is playing another game. And I will have more to say to you.
[... 21 paragraphs ...]
And so I hope the baby talk [here] is not obvious!!! It is time for you all to understand the material as I have given it, to use your mind. You have been in this class long enough to pass now beyond kindergarten. And I [no] longer feel that it serves that I speak to you in the most simple of terms. You have been here long enough now. When I speak to you, I shall therefore expect on your part some effort to understand me if necessary. I shall expect more of you, and you must expect more of yourselves.
Now the truck (the sound of one can be heard outside on the street) pauses at the corner. It is a method of communication—a vehicle. And in many ways I am a vehicle, for I am the means by which information is given to you. You are yourselves vehicles—as you move through experience and through moment points. Now you do not know what moment points are because I have not explained them in class and you have not read the material. But now it is time for you to be challenged. It is time for you to challenge your own mind and your own intuition. I shall cease speaking to you as kindergarten children, and I shall expect that you will cease thinking like kindergarten children.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
Now, imagine this: Within you, there are sounds, colors, sights that stretch backward into infinity. Your faces face this room, your eyes look out upon physical reality. Imagine, however, that you have innumerable faces, for our analogy. And that these faces look out into other realities quite as varied and quite as real. For this is indeed the cause. You can close your physical eyes and focus upon these other realities in which you also have your existence. And you can learn to manipulate in physical reality the better, because you understand your full potential. I challenge you to use all of your abilities and all of your senses. I challenge you to open your inner eyes, to use your minds, to use your inner intuitions. I challenge you to be yourselves and it is the greatest challenge that could be given you, and it is the only way that you will learn.
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