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[... 8 paragraphs ...]
(To Art O.): Now, my dear scientific friend over there: Atoms and molecules, minute as they may appear to you, also carry their burden of consciousness and responsibility. Yet there is a portion of consciousness that can joyfully perceive in a manner that is not dictated by its nature; it can playfully perceive as a creative aspect of its being, without responsibility. In one manner of speaking the very air about you sings with its own joyful consciousness. It does not know the same kind of burden of consciousness that often oppresses you. (Speaking generally): You are so frightened of death, in your terms, that you dare not turn your consciousness off for one second; for you fear that if you do, indeed, who will be there to turn it back on again?
(Art O.: “Is the whole entity involved in this dispersion of consciousness, or just the portion of it we know now?”)
[... 42 paragraphs ...]
(To Art O.): Even our African god over there can remember his past lives if he will only allow himself to do so.
(Art O.: “Is that life the reason why I like African music now?”)
[... 4 paragraphs ...]