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[...] You may close your eyes or leave them open, as you prefer, but sense within yourselves your own inner identity. [...] Feel also within you the tremendous energy and vitality that gives existence to your physical image and propels the reality of your thoughts and images and gives any kind of reality to your dreams. Get a hold of this energy within yourselves and feel it as your own for you are this energy, and you are within it and a part of it. [...]
[...] And let them form a foundation upon which you can climb to find your own reality and your own existence that is in itself independent, both of my words and even of the room in which now your bodies sit, for that independent inner self wanders through all existences that you have known, in your terms, has a wisdom and knowledge that you can use. And each of you in a greater sense knows the nature of your own vitality, and none of you are alone or have ever been alone for within you is the knowledge of all the personalities that you are, and within you are those abilities to be used and tapped. [...]
Now you may each interpret your experiences in your own way but feel the independence of yourself from this room and from this time and from this existence. [...] Pretend then that the room itself is a dream from which you are almost about to awaken, and with your eyes closed still, you will awaken from this room into another place and another time, and with your eyes closed you will awaken to another reality as valid and legitimate as this one. A reality in which you are intimately concerned and feel within yourselves the inner identity recognizing that which it now sees and perceives. [...]
Now some of you will be able to come further with me, and those of you who can, I ask you, still with your eyes closed then, to awaken to the reality of another classroom in which you are all involved and in which our two new guests also sit. A classroom that you visit in the dream state, and that is quite as real as the physical room that you visit once each week, and in that existence there are other students, and they are all portions of your own realities. They are other personalities all a part of you, and they come from many times and places, in your terms, and there are many teachers and some of those teachers also are other portions of your own personalities. [...]
Now return to the room, and open your eyes with wonder upon the physical reality that you have formed. Open your eyes, all of you, and test what you see against the inner reality that you know. And remember that my energy speaks for your own energy. [...]
Open your eyes and look about you. [...] You have projected yourself to this room, in your terms, from other times and other places. You belong in this room at this moment of your time because you have projected yourselves into it. [...]
[...] But the vitality that draws you, and the vitality that is within each of you is the same vitality that changes the seasons that you know and that gives your physical existence its meaning that insures the survival of your identity. And within this energy have you your independent existence. [...]
[...] Your husband was what amounts now to a Colonel in the 14th Regiment then stationed within that city. You had two children, one now your present sister. [...]
Now feel, again within yourself, the birth and emergence of ever new energy so that it pulses within all the reality that you know. [...]
Now before I bid you a fond good evening let me remind you that those of you who are ready can meet in the out-of-body state and remember your experiences. [...]