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Open your eyes and look about you. You are now in a projection. 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. Around you there are friends and strangers, and you have always been friends and strangers to each other. Now look closely about you. How real is the room? How much do you know of the selves you think you are?
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.
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Now feel, again within yourself, the birth and emergence of ever new energy so that it pulses within all the reality that you know. Let it sustain you, let it carry you again safely back to the hallucination of the physical room and the projection that you now accept. And let all of you remember what you have learned, and where you have been.
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(To Mark.) You are quite ready for your classroom now so forget the negative suggestions you have been giving yourself.
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(To Joel) And as for our friend over here, trust yourself, and when I say your self, I mean the entire self. Not just the self that you know, or the self you think you accept, or the self you fear you do not know, but the entire self.
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