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ideal
taxes
expression
mutilate
envision
[... 1 paragraph ...]
(This morning while working on the tax questionnaire for the CPA who handles our affairs, I had cramps in my back and stomach. They came on while I was talking about money with Jane. I’d asked her recently if Seth could say something about my too frequent upsets with my stomach and side, anyhow. The deleted material on my stomach which I’d received on February 2, 1976 had already helped resolve my hassles about using old family photos in “Unknown” Reality.)
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
On the one hand, our work and yours is largely devoted to poking holes into the official one-line consciousness, and on the other you find yourself financially responsible to contribute to its policies.
In your mind you creatively envision the ideal—the sanity of some future culture that, hopefully, our work and others will bring about: if not tomorrow, some “time.” On the other hand, you face the evidence of today; almost, though not quite, it seems, the worst picture possible, the antithesis of what is desired. And it seems to you that your money is being used to prolong those conditions.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
More than this, again, any money thus acquired in the future, as in the past, would go to promote the continuance of the very system that, left alone, would mutilate our book, and continue idiotic cultural and political policies that are opposed to what you stand for.
[... 9 paragraphs ...]
Your money will go into ventures you approve of. Underline that sentence. It will be used to support people or ventures that in one way or another seek goals that are in line with our work. When you thoroughly understand what is meant by the entire safe universe concept, then the physical, cultural climate is understood as a medium through which the ideal can be expressed—can be expressed. The ideal is meaningless if it is not physically manifest to one degree or another. The ideal seeks expression. It seeks those channels that it instinctively knows will yield expression. In doing so it often seems to change or alter in ways that are not understood.
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
Now, returning to our material.
[... 24 paragraphs ...]
