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STARTING OVER FROM THE BOTTOM UPWARD.
THE WILL TO LIVE

(3:28.) If we are talking about starting over, however, we may as well begin at one of the lowest points and work upward. This way you can see beliefs in their darkest form, and then little by little watch them begin to show energy, vitality, and fresh impetus.

The next chapter is to be entitled “Starting Over From the Bottom Upward. The Will to Live.”

[...] In those terms you are one person physically objectified, staring upward in the scene just mentioned at an objectified sky. You weigh so many pounds, tilt your head at such-and-such an angle to peer upward at the skyscape, and physically speaking, you can be categorized.

You might stand alone in your doorway, or in a field — or even on a street, surrounded by many people in a large city — look upward, suddenly struck by the great sweeping clouds above, and feel yourself a part of them. [...]

[...] First the defined steps going upward represented fairly (underlined) ordinary steps that had to be taken, that others had taken before you. [...]

(9:51.) The point of power exercise can be utilized from these other levels, where the inner mobility is then seen “rising upward”. [...]

[...] The prophet looks upward to the left, lips parted in speech.)

[...] I hadn’t tried to consciously decide what the prophet might be saying as he looked upward. [...]

[...] In a fashion Fell represented the next step upward from, say, pulp magazines. [...]

He considered Prentice-Hall a further excellent step upward, a reputable-enough publisher. [...]

[...] Then begin to imagine this inner self rising upward. [...]

It may be a rushing upward. [...]

[...] She indicated a slope or angle upwards of perhaps 30 degrees, perhaps less; in a straight line, and quite definitely.)

[...] There are indeed two different kinds of upward-walking mammals, much like your own species, but much larger, and with infinitely keener senses. [...]

[...] She provides steps of energy that allow you to move upwards, she provides strength when you need it. [...]

[...] It maintains contact awareness and the ability to manipulate itself in two completely different worlds, so to speak, one in which it meets little resistance growing upward, and one composed of much heavier elements into which it must grow downward. [...]

And as far as motion is concerned, the tree moves upward and downward. [...]

[...] The sap could not move upward for the trunk would solidify through and through, trying all the while to protect, and killing the tree with its obsessive kindness.

This person will move quickly upward however, taking Philip’s ideas along. [...]

Ruburt’s sense of disorientation is also partially the result of healing processes within his own body, and altering relationships—again, at intimate microscopic levels—which send their new “healing tremors” upward through the various formations of matter, so tell him to enjoy it.

(There are four recognized [electrical] brain waves, and in speed they range upward from 0 to 26 and more Hertz units, or cycles per second. [...]

[...] Watch television or whatever, but imagine—lightly, now—a pyramid with each of you at its base, going upward into Framework 2. The energy you sense in whatever program you watch imagine almost like a generator, as energy here drawing power from Framework 2 into the room, into Ruburt’s body and your own, activating both your physical and psychic existences.

[...] It maintains constant awareness and the ability to adjust itself in two completely different worlds, so to speak — one in which it meets little resistance in growing upward and one composed of much heavier elements into which it must grow downward. [...]

And as far as motion is concerned, the tree moves upward and downward. [...]

[...] His body is thrusting itself upward. [...]

[...] Help over this present period will let you see what I mean in a clearer light—but the thrust of your joint motions is upward. [...]

[...] He kept careful note of his feeling and reactions during that time, and knew he could not get in that state of mind again: so he started in quotes “upward.” [...]

[...] The thrust and potential of growing things creates an overexuberance, you might say, saturating your atmosphere and changing the ionic charges both of the ground itself and the atmosphere extending upward.

[...] You can lift your lives upward, therefore. [...]