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Now I want you to try something with me. As you have projected yourselves here, then give yourselves the freedom to project yourselves elsewhere. You may close your eyes or leave them open, as you prefer, but sense within yourselves your own inner identity. Travel through the personality that you call yourself. Do not take it at face value but feel within yourself for the hidden self that is within. 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.
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. It is, indeed, real and so are dreams real. 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.
You may, again, interpret the experience in whatever terms you choose. If you hear voices, then listen to what they say. The voices of strangers and beloved ones are often the same voices, and the scenes that you see often, you have seen before. 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.
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