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If you “read yourselves” sideways in such a manner, you would discover portions of your own consciousness stretching out across the entire fabric of the earth as you understand it — becoming a part of the earth’s material, even as those materials become part of the self that you recognize. [...] You think of yourselves physically as “top dogs,” however, separate from the other species and kinds of life, so that in effect you limit your own experience of your psyche.
(Long pause.) You read yourselves from the top of the page to the bottom, or from what you think of as the beginning to the end. [...]
You have set up the problem for yourselves within the framework of your reference. You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart. [...]
[...] But many of you form guilts for which there is no adequate cause, and you saddle yourselves with these guilts without reason. [...]
[...] (Pause.) First of all, as a species, in the context of normal usage, you have considered yourselves as apart from the rest of nature and consciousness.
I want you both to remember that you are learning a new kind of orientation, and ideas directly opposed to those with which you were “inoculated”—so do not blame yourselves for inadequacies. Do not disapprove of yourselves. Do not compare yourselves to what you think you should do or be. [...]
[...] You have each been afraid to really exert all of your energies to rid yourselves of this problem.
[...] You did not really exert yourselves fully, except upon a few occasions in the past when improvements did definitely appear to be coming to a hopeful conclusion of the difficulty.
[...] You must find within yourselves the willingness, the energy, and the intent—the willingness to take a chance, and not to so fear failure.
[...] In those areas of life where you are satisfied, give yourselves credit, and in those areas where you are not, remind yourselves that you are involved in a learning process; you are daring enough to accept the responsibility for your actions.
[...] You will instead live in a world where events happen to you, in which you must do sacrifice to the gods of one kind or another, or see yourselves as victims of an uncaring nature.
[...] When you left yourselves alone, as you did generally speaking, during the week, you not only attained some peace of mind, but definite improvements in those areas that concerned you both. [...]
[...] This of course applies in the area of “Unknown,” as well as in situations in which either of you compare yourselves unfavorably with, say, your neighbors’ physical activity. [...]
[...] You are therefore to understand what I am saying, and not to further disapprove of yourselves or your reactions, but to be pleased with your additional knowledge—for that will enable you to look at events with clearer eyes.
[...] While we are dealing with such material you should definitely try to be a bit more indulgent with yourselves, generally speaking—Ruburt in particular. [...]
You did not seek goals that could be reached easily by anyone, or even goals that you yourselves could be certain of attaining. [...]
Because you have in the past convinced yourselves that the conscious mind must of necessity be cut off from inner reality, you think that it must be alienated from the dream state. Following such beliefs, you find yourselves thinking of dreaming as chaotic, unreasonable, and as completely divorced from normal conscious direction, purpose, or function. [...]
Dictation: These blueprints for reality are relatively invisible because you have allowed yourselves to forget their existence.
[...] Far be it from me to interrupt when you are not working; when you are not looking within yourselves. The summer season within yourselves is far more enjoyable than the summer streets down which you walk. [...]
[...] When you immerse yourselves completely in physical reality, then you have no time for the inner voice. [...]
[...] And that this vitality is your own—then feel it within yourselves—now it is being used simply to let you know of its existence, but realize that it is within you for you to use as you will—for your own good—and you (Brad) are not powerless. [...]
Know that within your physical atoms now the origins of all consciousness still sings and that all the human characteristics by which you know yourselves, still exist within the eye of all our consciousness, never diminished, but always present. [...]
(8:19.) You have both tried to handle the situation by yourselves, and that statement applies to you both. [...] It can be seen in other forms (pause)—in your interest for example years ago in situations like survival, using the land’s resources; in your imagined dealings with a possible nuclear war in the past, when you saw yourselves relying upon yourselves; in your behavior during the flood; in your determination to seek yourselves for the meaning of life rather than look to the authorities—and indeed in your own dealings with your own health when such issues arise. [...]
[...] As a species, you think of yourselves (pause) as the “pinnacle” end of an evolutionary scale, as if all other entities from the first cell onward somehow existed in a steady line of progression, culminating with animals, and finally with man the reasoning animal. [...]
[...] You identify yourselves with your intellect, primarily, casting aside as much as possible other equally vital elements of your personhood.
[...] Neither religion or science grant other creatures much subjective dimension, however: You like to think of yourselves, again, as the reasoning animal in terms of your species.
[...] Far be it from me to interrupt when you are not working, when you are not looking within yourselves. The summer season within yourselves is far more enjoyable than the summer streets down which you walk. [...]
Now because your conscious mind, as you think of it, is not aware of these activities, you do not identify with this inner portion of yourselves. [...]
You cannot understand yourselves, and you cannot accept my independent existence, until you rid yourself of the notion that personality is a “here and now” attribute of consciousness. [...]
[...] So you stand amid a constant vital commotion, a gestalt of aware energy, and you are yourselves physically composed of conscious cells that carry within themselves the realization of their own identity, that cooperate willingly to form the corporeal structure that is your physical body.
Each of you automatically heal yourselves day by day, as you know. [...] You use the energy of the universe to heal yourselves constantly, but you have very definite conceptions of how this healing can take place and what is possible and what is not possible. [...]
[...] And imagine also, therefore, that within yourselves now are other far more wise selves and that within your eyes are other eyes as old as mine and other selves quite as ancient and quite as new and that these selves, within yourselves, look out at me and wink and in winking know what they know. [...]