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The official line of consciousness is a certain mental stance, a kind of convention. (Long pause.) When you were a child you thought in a freer fashion, but little by little you were educated to use words in a certain way. You discovered that your needs were met more quickly, and you received approval more often, when you thought and spoke in that particular manner. Finally it seemed to be the only —
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— natural mode of operation. Your entire civilization is built around that kind of inner framework. The way of thinking becomes so automatic as to be mentally invisible. With creative people, however, there are always intrusions, hints or clues from ways of thinking that certainly appear foreign, and creative people use those hints and clues to construct an art, a musical composition or whatever. They sense a surge of power beneath.
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