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[... 15 paragraphs ...]
In a way everything is new. This of course requires on your parts energy, self-reliance, faith in what you are doing, and a certain stubbornness. At the same time you are everywhere surrounded by the suggestions of your culture.
[... 16 paragraphs ...]
Because you were born in this culture, it is not surprising that you still fall prey to lack of trust in yourselves, or in the body’s abilities to cure itself. Teachings to the contrary have been deeply imbedded. You do have something extremely valuable when you realize it, though this is often lost to you in practical terms because of your fears and negative projections. The large majority of people are confused, besieged, and struggling without any clear idea of why they are in such a state, and with barely a hundredth fraction of your insight or understanding, unable to form their own framework, yet aware that the conventional one is sadly lacking. Your sense of direction may be far more obvious to them than to you, because they sense it so vitally in contrast to their own condition.
[... 26 paragraphs ...]
When you feel the sessions do not help, it is of course because you doubt yourselves, and you doubt yourselves because of the very cultural reality you are in the process of changing for yourselves and others.
[... 14 paragraphs ...]