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Now. A word concerning the nature of inner perceptions.

You are not aware, or Ruburt is not aware, of the direct inner perception. The physical organism cannot perceive it, hence some necessary transformations. The data may make itself known in visual or auditory forms. Some interpretation is always necessary.

You recall I have told you that the intensity of an experience, rather than its duration in time, determines its effect. The intensity is emotional. With the inner perceptions there will be a traveling through of intensities. The experience is perceived simultaneously by the inner senses, but it will be translated in terms of physical time.

I believe it will be found that differences will occur in the plus and minus charges in the body during such episodes. (One minute pause, eyes closed.) The girl’s emotional condition the other evening acted indeed like a psychological bridge, over which Ruburt could pass. Inner perceptions are never basically physical, you see. Basically, no perceptions are physical for that matter. Emotional patterns are quite wordless. (Long pause.) In other words, if you will forgive a pun, you can never be consciously aware of the basic inner perception, but you can follow backward to that point. You can discover how you use the data, and how you finally recognize it.