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[... 26 paragraphs ...]
Now in Alpha I, to some extent, you step aside from the physical moments that you know and in so doing you also relieve your physical system of the pressure of the hours. You take away from your physical system the conscious pressures that you force upon it, and you allow it to rest. You allow the spontaneous self within you some peace and freedom. The part of you that is released in Alpha I can, therefore, be free enough to direct the energies of the physical self that you know.
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
Now I would not force you into any state of awareness, far be it from me. You are all in Alpha I, and I did not force you into it. Now bear with me for a few moments, realizing as you do so that there is in reality no distinction between the atoms and molecules within your precious bodies and the atoms and molecules that fly about the room quite innocently and free; realizing also that there is great space between the atoms and molecules within your body, and that if some very small person were flying through they would find your bodies as large as a galaxy; realizing also that the skin that seems so solid to you is very open, indeed, and does not separate you so much from the universe, as it connects you with the universe; and that there is little division between the atoms and molecules in those knees and those legs and the atoms and molecules that form the floor upon which the legs and knees seem to rest.
[... 15 paragraphs ...]