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Now, you use atoms and molecules in a strange way. You transpose your ideas upon them. You perceive them in a certain fashion. Now, I am not blaming you. I have done it too in my time, and there is a good reason for it. But the fact is that physical matter is not solid except when you believe that it is. And that organization is transposed from within upon the without. It is not transposed from the without upon you. You form the reality that you know, and even though the table holds up your arms and you may lean upon it and write, I still tell you that the table is not solid. This makes little difference as long as you can write upon it. It makes little difference as long as you can sit upon your couch. But when you leave your physical system, and when physical perception is no longer the rule—then you must learn new root assumptions. Root assumptions are those meaning laws upon which you agree in any system of reality.
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There are other root assumptions that you take as a basis of reality. And in other levels of reality there are other root assumptions. These are the seeming laws by which you govern your experiences. Our note-takers (Sally and Florence) are doing very well considering that the paper is not solid and neither is the pen. It is amazing what you can do with nothing!! Now I will let you take a break.
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