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The early problems that helped trigger your difficulty you can now, as an adult, overcome these by realizing that the inner self has its own knowledge and its own ways. You can hear me, and I will see to it that you do. Imagine yourself answering questions that have been put to you. You need not imagine that you are hearing clearly. If you imagine that you are answering the questions, then it will be taken for granted that you have heard them correctly. When you try too hard to hear or see, you hear and see less. Relax and let this be taken care of for you. Now you do not trust the inner self to do these things, and you must learn to accept the inner ancient wisdom that is your own.
(To Sue.) And you must learn also that love is noisy and can be a bother and can get in the way, and you must learn not to deny the validity of your own feelings in those directions where you are now tending to hide them from yourself.
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It is connected with Sean, but it also has deeper roots. I will see that Ruburt tells it to you. This also has to do, however, with the fear of exterior stimuli and the basic fear that it will sweep you away, destroy your person and (words lost) of it. You have no security and these thoughts and feelings are highly erroneous. You have physical senses for a reason. They are to help you, not to hinder you. When you refuse to use them for whatever reason, you lessen your own abilities and your own effectiveness as you know, but this is not ever thrust upon you. This is a method of learning, and as you learn you will solve the problem.
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It takes effort to inhibit your memory of your dreams. It is harder to put up that inhibiting factor than it is to simply remember them. So you no longer need to use the effort to inhibit the memory of your dream. You can tell yourselves that you can simply let that effort go. You do not need to use it in that way. Now when you are ready, and it is work in probabilities is a prerequisite, you will be able to meet and remember so that we can carry on class twice a week. And you will only have to pay for once. And you will remember both the location and what you are learning. But it is not handed out to you on a silver platter. Your own abilities operate here, but this is within your reach now.
(To Ron) It is not within your reach now, but they will carry you along. Until you learn to laugh inside. I will give you laughing sessions. The gods all laugh, they have no time for seriousness.
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