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The whole human race has one particular origin of cell which came into being when it had to come into being. The human cell does not come from anything; it is created. In fact each human cell is a species unto itself-there are no two alike; each is one of a kind just like each fingerprint is one of a kind. And because of this each human being is the most valuable thing in the world. A human being is stronger than a building but yet is quite fragile. This society takes stock in the concept which says that we come from an ape, but the human cell's origin is different than the ape's. No ape has a distinguishing fingerprint like a human being, and furthermore no two fingerprints are the same even for billions of people.
The quality of the human atom in our own galaxy is the highest quality of any atom because it is based on chemical energy.
Carnivorous animals only kill when they are hungry; otherwise they will not kill, but humans who have lost their natural balance have become the worst of killers of all animals. No lion ever killed another lion, but one human will kill another human. The lowest form of degeneration is when you kill your own species. To be civilized, we have to realize this balance of nature and become more intelligent in dealing with it. There are some who pack a good lunch and then set out to kill animals for fun. This is where we become unbalanced. If you disagree with this, how would you like it if someone else were to pack a lunch and then set out to kill you for fun. Even if we have to kill in order to eat, we still realize that there must be a better way of existing.
When a species outlives it purpose, it plants. When an environment doesn't serve our purpose, then we plant ourselves in another planet somewhere. All beginnings are crude, so we might even have to learn how to walk again when we replant ourselves. After we replant ourselves we always reach a higher state of development. We never go back. Human beings have always existed. We are interbred from other planets. All we need now is evidence that we were replanted from another planet. The reason why people don't like to think of such things is because it wakes up certain cells and it is painful when this happens. No human actually originates from one planet. We were planted here. Beings are being planted from one planet to another. Yet this doesn't mean that all animals are planted; only anything that has a "cerebral cortex" is planted. The reason why we are looking forward to travel in space is because we are going to do the same thing (replanting)) to another planet. We can travel in the form of dust, but the little brain that we have-we are such infants in intelligence-thinks that it must be in space ships. The purpose of developing space travel is because we cannot live forever on the same planet. Planets lose their hydrogen and the less hydrogen the lighter and smaller that planet becomes until it completely disintegrates. Then we go to another planet that is suitable to live on and until it too loses its hydrogen.
It would definitely be better to live in outer space. This is why astronauts must acquire a natural psychological attitude about "atmosphere."
The most narrow item to live with is what you can see. The difference between humans and lower animals is that humans have a cerebral cortex and are able to know that there are three sides of a cube which cannot be seen. Animals, no matter how often you tell them, can never know this because they have no place to store it.
The cerebral cortex enables humans to deal with change. Lower animals don't have the cerebral cortex; they are there to balance things out. If there are too many rats, for example, then the central law brings more snakes into existence. But humans are not there to balance things out. The human cerebral cortex enables them to recognize the next stage of perfection. Lower animals adapt to change. Humans with their cerebral cortex build towards a change.
Everything but the cerebral cortex of living matter becomes extinct in time. NOT TO BECOME EXTINCT is the purpose of the human species; the human being is the non-extinct animal. Animals with a cerebral cortex such as the human race are not destined to become extinct whereas animals without a cerebral cortex are destined to become extinct. There are about five billion birds of all species here in North America. If you go back even five million years, you will find the same kinds of species. But you won't find the same kind of human beings as we have today. Humans are an unlimited species.
Whatever is produced outside of human efforts is a basic principle of need and does not vary. The human works differently from all other animals and creates new things. Any animals without a cerebral cortex (all except humans) only deal with the natural basic minimum of need. No particular creativity development exists. What is the newest ant hill you've seen? Is it any different from the last? Such life forms are only equipped to follow nature's basic minimum of need. An anthill is a creation of nature and not of that particular species of insect.
The purpose of that part of man's brain called the cerebral cortex is to be able to recognize cycles of higher perfection. When Henry Ford invented the horseless carriage, we had to crank the motor with a handle. This is a state of perfection. It was the cerebral cortex of a Mr. Kettering that enabled him to create a solenoid so that by pushing a button you could crank the car.
Instinct is the direct means of guidance for animals; there is no interference. Humans have awareness by means of the cerebral cortex. Instinct plays the part of awareness for animals.
Why is a parrot able to live for 50 years? What makes them so different from other birds? Parrots and a few others of the same species have actually developed a higher level brain where they are able to form words though they don't know what they are talking about. No other animal is known to do the same. The dog is a higher form of development than the cat. Dogs take on a responsibility to protect you if you feed them and care for them. It is very healthy to be able to distinguish and learn such little things as these.
The only purpose of our cerebral cortex is to be able to distinguish progress from one cycle of development to another. If you start asking people: Who discovered the solenoid so people wouldn't have to crank their car motors? you will soon find out how many people are interested in the cerebral cortex or progress or in the source of progress which is yourself. When you do not realize that progress starts from within you, then you will not recognize the benefit you receive from the progress others have contributed. Boredom and monotony soon set in when you don't use your cerebral cortex to make the next step in your own field. Even though the clergy of today benefit from it, they tell you that progress is nothing and that after the savior or messiah comes, then you will have a utopia. This is their way of giving people hope.
When you think of improving yourself, think first of the minimum needs of existence without which you cannot get to the next stage of development. Try to figure out what is needed. Point out everything the body needs: food, clothing, shelter. Also, according to development, there are cultural, sexual and other needs. Doing this creates very good body chemicals and is good not only for ourselves but for others as well. When someone is hungry and you start talking about something else besides food, they are going to get upset. Take care of needs first. Indeed, if there wasn't this basic need for food, clothing, and shelter, this world would be an insane asylum. With these needs we are forced into balance and can't go completely out of balance; basic needs keep the human race from going extinct due to imbalance. Animals have a true established minimum of need, but humans don't. The next development for them is a higher level of independence which means more time to create things on their own. As long as anything is subject to development, there is no 100% perfection. This society itself is subject to development because there is no limit to perfection. When people develop higher, they produce more and get more and better things.
Wages are very important. What is your earning power? Here in this country they compare your wages with wages of workers in other countries, but what they don't tell you is that here you don't get what you need whereas over there they do get what they need. Only observing things superficially will fool you 100% of the time. Capitalists make you proud of the misery you live in. They build big buildings, but they don't let you look at skid row and the nice places at the same time. The American can be illustrated by the following story. A man invites his friend to come and visit him. When he arrives, he takes his friend around to show him all the nice things, certainly not skid row. And when his friend asks him where he lives, he tells him that temporarily he is living in the park. America is beautiful; it is the system that is ugly. To be happy, continue working to improve things. This is the only way you'll feel right with yourself. The higher the development of the conscious state, the less association you have with the word "want." The word "want" deals with the conscious state. Use instead the word "need." Subconsciousness and the involuntary system deal only with need. Become so developed that you think only in terms of what you need and not in terms of what you want. At the stage we are presently, we still accept what we "want," but only when we get what we "need" are we satisfied. The reason for this is because we always want more than we need. In our undeveloped frame of mind we see this as limiting, but there is no limit to what we need. We are dealing here with the central law, and when you get away from the central law, you are always wanting things which you don't need. When you deal with one thing only, you'll always be outside the central law.
Can you give me the absolute purpose of why you would want more than what you need? Use the word "need" not "want" so that you would let nothing interfere with what you need. When you use the word "need" instead of "want," you make the least amount of mistakes. It is a training. People who use words like "wish" and "want," are never satisfied because they never get enough. When you say, for example, that you "need" money, you have a definite purpose. Whereas when you say I "want" money, this purpose is not there. If you want something to be possible, give me a reason. If it will save a million people or a little girl, then I'll do it. Any type of immoral state would crucify you when you start teaching about the central law of the universe.
We always want more than what we need, and we never get enough of it until the contradiction comes. It's like the Indian chief who sold a man some land and told him to leave his money and to mark a circle on ground using a stick to indicate how much land he needed for himself giving him from sunrise until sunset. The man went out all day long without rest marking the land, and by the time sunset came round he dropped dead. The man wanted more than he needed. Everything you need in this universe belongs to you, but what you do not need does not belong to you.
Waste means you want something more than you need, and what you don't need is wasted. When you get more than you need and waste it, this is unnatural. How do we know this? The universe does not allow the smallest speck just to lay there without being recycled. The bible tells us that we came from dust and return to dust. But the bible isn't specific; what this means is that everything is recycled. If nature could talk, it would say: "I will give you what you need but no more than that." You always wind up getting what you need. If you get more than what you need, then somehow or other it will be lost.
What you need, you must have, but what you want, is a matter of choice. No matter what it is you want, recognize that this is only part of what you need. You can never get enough of what you want, but you can almost get enough of what you need. Handle one need at a time and make sure it is not just what you want; what you want may not be what you need. If you are not sure, don't worry because if it is not what you need, you'll lose it anyway. Only by thinking like this can we become clear enough to get what we need.
There are needs like food and sex which are easily seen, but there are others which are just as important but not so evident. Music is a need. You would be surprised what would happen if suddenly the world were deprived of it. Hermits would soon die if they were deprived of the symphony of the birds and animals. In order to live, we have to eat. Consider what the universe itself does to get what it needs.
Though millions of answers are given to the question of what makes people steal, nature has only one answer: the conditions under which they live cause people to steal. You will never see a person crazy enough to steal a pail of water from the river; there is plenty of it for all, and nature says that anything there is plenty of you don't have to steal.
That "a little bit at a time" is very important because this is the way we grow. When you are about to make the next step, others around you will make you seem ridiculous, but those little steps will create mountains of success. If you want to be healthy, then keep moving; first know what is known, and then go for the next step.
Most will not take the next step. They say to themselves, "I'm too busy. I have no time. I'm using what I have and that's it." Their egos are so pleased. Then someone comes along and "throws a monkey wrench into things." This is why Einstein and also Nicola Tesla were so hard to take. With a converter, Tesla could make one battery run 10 machines instead of one. A faker or promoter or charlatan never makes the next step. We must use the fundamental laws of the universe to make the next step.
Depression starts building just from standing still and doing nothing. The brain must never come to a standstill (storing up guilt); it must continually change. Just by being conscious of what is happening, then these cells begin to work.
The desire to perfect is the healthiest thing there is. A senile person cannot arouse a desire to perfect.
The purpose of life is to perfect things; this is why you were born. If you are not disturbed, then you will perfect. Begin with yourself. Ask yourself if what you are doing leads up to perfecting something so that it becomes better than what you have today. If you have any desire to perfect things, it must be because you need a better way of life. The more you perfect, the less you suffer. As long as you have a desire to perfect, you'll attract what's good for you and what's good for you will be good for all people.
Everyone has the desire to perfect, but most are driven away from it. Some individuals have this attitude: "I know things have to be better so I'll wait until they're done; of course, I'm not going to do it." When you look at it this way, you'll never be aware of the true purpose of living. Even if you only make a better nail or a better table, then you are already aware of the purpose of life without having to be a physicist or scientist or having to get a lot of degrees. If you look for the last point of perfection, you'll never start anything. Also, the important thing is not whether you can make money producing something or whether the state will allow what you produce. The important thing is to perfect. And remember that there are some things like Kettering's solenoid which can be accepted by the most immoral state.
Anything done for constructive purposes lives forever. Does it matter if the child knows that it was Dr. Sabin who invented the serum which saved it's life? No! What Dr. Sabin did lives forever because of this. There is no limit to perfection, nature, or life. The perfection we look for is when there is no more limits to anything You use the known and study the unknown. The reason why you have to study the unknown is because of your cerebral cortex. You soon outlive the state of the known and then the unknown becomes the new state of perfection. This is the chain reaction toward perfection and it keeps going without limit. This is equilibrium or changing from a quantity to a quality: the second fundamental law of the universe. Nothing stays at one state. Whatever changes take place belong to a chain of reactions. Equilibrium is accomplished by the chain reaction of change. This is how the universe retains its equilibrium.
All life is in continuous curves. When I was giving injections to women with problems relating to menopause, I explained to them that the cure would be temporary if they didn't understand that they were afraid of growing old and of moving into another cycle of perfection. Even sentences have their own cycle, and they too must be completed. Is a lower animal a third dimensional animal? No! The third dimension is when you not only see the three visible sides of a cube but also its other three sides. The 4th dimension deals with relativity; nothing is independent in itself. We are part of our environment. At present we are able to apply ourselves only up to the fourth dimension. There are only seven fundamental dimensions, and from these seven "sprout" an unlimited amount dimensions. The fourth dimension is Einstein's theory of relativity. When we get to the fourth dimension, we are already a half dimension into living matter-this is how unbalanced we are-and the science of living matter takes up the remaining three dimensions.
The next higher development will be a brain that can get the answers it needs just like that!
When Einstein thought of the theory of relativity and people didn't quite accept it, it was justifiable. But when it was explained in terms of time and space, it became a scientific fact (the discovery of the fourth dimension). We apply the fourth dimension until we come to a higher dimension which will at first be a theory.
A higher dimension cannot be given to you-you don't get it in school.
With each dimension, there are different energies. Inorganic material is based on an unlimited amount of dimensional energies.
The human unit, which is so perfectly put together, is that which continually changes to the better. Being the higher animal we're able to create a cycle of perfection. When we outlive one cycle of perfection we automatically go to another cycle of perfection and there is no limit. This is because of our cerebral cortex (only in humans) which enables us to go from one cycle of development to another. Lower animals don't know when a cycle of development (to create something) comes to an end. The only purpose of the human is to pursue higher cycles of perfection.-Ten fingers and ten toes equals twenty which is the cycle of the human. The only problem is that we don't know how this works.-This may sound confusing. What is there to perfect? All this means is that we must understand our universe. And the more we know about our universe, the more we can harness in the way of tools so that we can keep up with the changes of our universe. Never allow yourself to think that you're going to become completely perfect.
While you're not going against nature, you use this time to produce better things to live with. Your mind is responsible for only one thing: to develop higher levels of culture at all times; nature will not do it for us. Birds still wait for nature to build them a better house. We must build better things all the time. This is the only thing the mind is responsible for.
In order to have a natural approach to thinking you have to realize that there is a time required for development. Between one stage of development and another is the principle of time. By being aware of the time necessary for growth, you won't get disgusted. And just because I don't have the time to wait for the people around me to develop, or because they're not as "smart" as I am, am I going to call them parasites?
All forms of past, present, and future each belong to categories of when and where, and all of these go from one cycle to another; you have to know where and when a particular past, present, or future existed. Egypt's past is not the same as our past. This is where it is very easy to get confused; we get all pasts, presents and futures mixed up. Each should be put in its own cycle. You don't have the past I have, and I cannot force you to accept my present or future. The only thing we have in common is what is good for all.
All presents of whatever form do not become futures or pasts but remain presents. Present times always develop into higher cycles, and there is no limit. The past also runs in cycles and so does the future. Forty years ago their "present" was to crank an automobile by hand. Our "present" is to push a button or turn a key. This is an example of a higher cycle of a present.
All realities deal mostly with the present. You're supposed to observe that the present is better than the past, and if it isn't then you repeat yourself. It is very important for people to realize what stage of development they have in the present because what will be in the future will not be in the present. Always have something now before you look for something afterwards. At the least make every day as realistic as you can. Actually do things now. Put everything you have into the present; live every bit of it. When you live long enough with your present and know it well enough, then you can certainly see the good future. The future is from what we do today. What you did yesterday "doesn't count;" it's what you do from now on that counts. It is what you do in the present time that makes you happy. Whenever you buy something, make sure that you benefit from it in the present as well as in the future.
The past and the future pivot on the present. This is the see-saw of life upon which the most successful business people base their work. They start their research on the past and work it up to the present. From this they can figure out the future. People in business who do not work their research up to the present will have no good future. The past is very important. What you've done in your past has to do with your development in the future. You need some good experiences in the past to make you want to live, to make you feel good even when you have nothing. There are two kinds of past: a constructive past and a destructive past. Only a constructive past can give you a future. Lying, cheating, and destroying will not give you a future.
Very few people have ever learned to trust themselves. We don't trust ourselves because we're not harnessed to anything. The purpose of being harnessed is for balance. Anything which is not harnessed has no balance. A horse is harnessed to a wagon. The purpose of a louse is to suck poison out of the blood. The shoemaker and the tailor are harnessed to their professions. When you harness yourself, let it be neither to the past nor the future but to the present. It is that center of the see-saw which maintains the balance. Once you harness yourself to that central point, which is called the present, then I'll guarantee you will have a purpose.
What do we mean by the future? What we know now will be established in the future. But the ones that know what will be established in the future, this is their present but not everybody's present. Until knowledge is established for a society to live by, it is called the future. After this knowledge is established to be used, it becomes a present. The bible says that you cannot live by bread alone or in other words that you can't live with only today or with just the present. You need bread for today to think for tomorrow. With retirement it is the brain that stops, not the muscles. Though you do lots of exercise, not having the next day to look forward to or losing interest in the next day is the fastest form of deterioration. Squirrels, when they put away nuts in the tree, show they are thinking about the future, the coming months. Domesticated animals suffer the same disease as we do because they have been separated from this concern about "the next day;" domesticated animals are usually given everything they need.
If you can develop an objective foresight for two or even one day ahead, this is an absolute development that you can take advantage of. Only with foresight can you retain what you have; when you lose foresight, you lose what you have. Capitalistic money-makers have this development. Whatever plan they have, whether it's a 5 year or 10 year plan, they have their fences or protections for their plans. The more creative you are, the less farsighted you have to be. This is actually what balances the human brain. The ones that are short on this creative ability must use a lot of foresight. When animals such as squirrels put nuts away for winter, this is not foresight but instinct. Instinct is more accurate than man's farsightedness.
Knowledge narrows time. The knowledge of knowing how to travel 650 miles per hour cuts the time down when traveling to Russia or Africa. Telephoning these places accomplishes the same. Lack of knowledge means that you need more time. Practically all problems are created by the distance between time and knowledge.
Time is the most expensive item. You can't buy it even with all the wealth in the world, and see how inexpensive we make it.The little amount of time you take to be precise eliminates unnecessary amounts of time later. Few are able to concentrate with power because they refuse to take the time to be precise, and because of this they become stupid and powerless to do what is right.
Every person just before they die becomes completely associated with the wisdom of God. This is the reason why the murderer hanging next to Christ said that he (Christ) was a good man and that he should be freed. (It is an awful experience to live with losing something good.) It is a funny thing that at this time-when you're about to die-everything becomes so clear that one can only see what is right. But why do we have to wait till we die? Why can't we develop now to see what is right? Because that which we need to see what is right has been disturbed and interfered with. This is why Christ said to the murderer that they would meet in heaven. He understood that it was the interference of the immoral state that caused them to do this. All interference comes from the environment. This is why we must associate ourselves with those who are creating a better environment. What is the use of getting mad at roaches which come from the unhealthy and unclean environment of our house? I'd rather be around a herd of elephants than a thousand bed bugs.
Nothing is impossible when you go with life. But when you go against it, it resists you-actually goes against you. When life resists you, then there's friction. It's like hitting your fist against a stone wall; the wall doesn't get hurt but your fist does. If you go against life, life doesn't get hurt but you do; you create disease inside yourself. Life is a form of energy and there's no way to harm it. Anything contrary to nature is against life. The more you resist life, the more you separate from life and the less protection you have from the pressures around you. This holds true for all forms of life. A plant which has roots produces its own anti-bacterial matter, and this is when the plant does not resist life. People look for the answer to the question: What is life? The answer is you get life by going the least you can against it.
The central law or God (if you wish) produces persons who will produce what is needed for their environment. But we must go along with this central law. If the central law or God could talk it would say: "If you can't go along with me, at least don't go against me until you get the awareness to go along with me." Anything that is against life causes life to separate from the body. If you want a good electrical connection you clean the wires before joining them. You do the same when you connect a cable to your car battery. Just as the corrosion on the wires causes electricity to stop flowing, so the poisons you create inside yourself causes life to separate from your body.
The human being is a creation and pattern of the cosmic orderly system. If this central nervous system is responsible for proper functioning of this orderly system, then you can realize that the right thing to do is to create a foundation which would not disturb this central nervous system. Otherwise you're only using symptomatic ways in trying to achieve a higher quality of life, and treating symptoms will never accomplish this.
How can we understand what the central law is? The central law for any society is a foundation which creates an environment which does not disturb the central nervous system of a human being. This is an explanation that can never be contradicted by anyone at any time. The central nervous system of a human being makes it possible that the endocrine system has a balanced secretion. When that central nervous system is disturbed by the outside environment, there are many diseases that come from this. Either too much pituitrin, adrenalin, cortisone, etc. is produced or too little. So if we look for a welfare based on health, we must look for an environment that does not disturb the central nervous system. If you are healthy, then your brain functions normally, and when you feel better and your thinking is better. Any environment you are in is completely involved with obligations and all obligations deal with our central nervous system, and the central nervous system is connected to the neurogastric central nervous system. All disappointments are unnatural and are no good for us, whether this disappointment is within or without.
We have to understand things and know what the central law wants us to do. The central law is like the timing gear of an automobile which is the "central law" for the automobile. If you go against this in any way (by not putting oil in the car, for example) then you go against the distribution of life in the car. We have to understand what the central law wants us to do so that we act normally. When I get up in the morning, I ask myself: "What does God want me to do?" Then I get up, wash, eat, etc. Civilization, even though it is part of the laws of evolution, can be so disturbing that we can lose the meaning of life itself. Fragility is part of human life here today because of the interference in our growth and development. Perfect yourself so that you make less and less mistakes. The less you allow yourself to be interrupted, the clearer you'll be and the less mistakes you'll make.
Whatever you develop, you live with that development in the way of a limit; we are always reaching limits in our developments. Always look for a way to continue. Thinking in terms of limits hinders progress, creates poisonous chemicals in the body, and makes you resort to many forms of self-punishment. There is no limit to your development. What we're doing every day is harnessing ourselves to the energies of the universe. The only reason we're limited in using those energies is because we think within "those limits."
Go with the universe, and this has no limit. Even if you just say that there is no limit to perfection or don't judge the universe according to your level of development, then you are allowing yourself to grow whereas you can stunt your growth by putting a limit on yourself. An all-sided development deals with the awareness that there is no such thing as impossible. If you say that nothing is impossible, there will be many things that will be possible. If you say that many things are impossible, there will be many things that won't be possible. Even though the universe is a continuous existence of things, we still think in terms of limits (August 15, 1973). Scriptures deal with limits; they leave you hanging in midair. Don't ever limit yourself. There is always more beyond the point which you have already figured out.
It is important to understand what strain is. We derive its meaning from the universe itself. It means any form of change which takes place without going through a stage of development. Here is an exact example. When your muscles are not developed to lift a hundred pounds and you force yourself to do it, this is strain. Don't think in terms of strain. Think in terms of limits. What you are aware of, you must be able to stand. You don't get more than what you're able to stand. When you strain, you are using what you haven't got. The universe teaches that strain is unnatural, that it indicates a lack of development. Strain at childbirth gives you varicose veins. Primitive women give birth to babies without strain. This is called natural childbirth, and it has been observed by many doctors. The purpose of mathematics is to develop a way without strain. "Understanding strain" is part of the integration of biology and physics.
You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps. It's not a matter of "pushing" or
In order to perfect, you must first have something to perfect. The human is body, mind and spirit. If I teach you one without the others, then this will not work. No one has yet come to give these three fundamentals together. They are an orderly balance which comes from the universe. To teach these three fundamentals will require many lectures. They are part of a cosmic order and are based on the three fundamental laws of the universe, which are explained in another part of this book. For guidance, always think of the three (body, mind, and soul) as one unit and not separate.
In this day and age we still pay much attention to the body and mind. The body and mind are developments which come only from the soul. There would be no thought possible without the soul. The more the mind can be part of the soul, the more power the mind has. The soul is the fuse between the self-nature and the conscious state.
What is a soul? Go to a place of knowledge (a library or university) and ask them for information about the complete definition of a soul, and ask them to prove it. You could not get only one answer. If you could prove it, then there would be only one religion. But in fact there are many. Here is the answer: a soul is any living thing that can send out a thought or pick up a thought so that it is thoroughly able to communicate with the universe. This faculty is proper to the cerebral cortex part of the human brain. A famous mental telepathist named Dunninger documented before a scientist that he could receive an address between New York and Hollywood. A dog or any of the lower animals cannot do this (send out a thought). A soul is anything that can send out and receive thought. The reason why the dog cannot send out thought is because it does not belong to that particular species of cell which will never become extinct. There is no limit to the pursuit of perfection. If there was a limit, this would be the end of the human race. We always die not knowing what we want to know.
Soul is beyond what physics alone can give. Physics is the body itself. When the soul is integrated in that body then you have mind. This is what makes a complete unit of life. If we could see the soul as well as we could see the body, then this would be a complete development.
When you dream, your soul travels according to the way you dream. There is a true-false understanding of a dream. If there is any kind of problem in your conscious before sleep, the dream will appear false or an illusion. But the subconscious being has nothing to do with any kind of illusion. When you use a lie detector or polygraph, your subconscious always tells the truth. So if you have a problem and dream something, then your soul was there. It never lies.
There is no casket made to bury a soul, nor is there a hell for souls; once the soul separates from the body, the highest form of hydrogen bomb cannot harm it.
We think that when the soul "moves out" that it has to go some place. It doesn't have to go anyplace; it's just there; soul is part of the substance of life which gives birth at conception. When an infant is conceived, the soul is there. You don't have to ask for it or look for it. When we think in terms of soul by itself, then we miss out on the point. It is like thinking of our planet having nothing to do with anything else; it is just as wrong as this.
When people die, they leave a form. When a plant dies, it leaves a form. These forms are types of energies which can even be photographed. They have actually photographed plants in such a way that the photograph actually shows the forms of the branches which have been cut off. The house or body represents the supplies which consciousness uses to develop; that is the purpose of the body. When you die, the shape of your characteristic remains. If there wasn't such life remaining, the human species could never go on. It is this characteristic which we can now actually photograph. It is a bundle or unit of energy. If there is a very strong interest, this can be seen with the naked eye. Otherwise, an instrument must be used. They call these ghosts. Millions of years from now we will recognize this characteristic to be more important than the body itself. These characteristics can be contacted whether it's Benjamin Franklin or Michelangelo or another. If it wasn't for these characteristics, there would be no progress. This also is part of the chain reaction which we speak about (see "chain reaction" in Index). This energy is with you now and will be with your ghost. From the Catholic religion we have the Father which is the central law of the universe. The Son means the physical self. The Holy Spirit alone remains when the Son dies.
Most people think of themselves as outside of the Holy Spirit. They think that they couldn't be the Holy Spirit. The spirit or soul of the body is never buried. We are accustomed to using the word "matter" to mean that which we can see with the naked eye, and to using the word "spiritual" to mean that which we cannot see. But both are matter. The spiritual consists of energies which we cannot see with the naked eye. These energies actually discharge particles of matter. We now have instruments to prove this. Although we cannot see the electron, we can photograph its energy. The same is true of the human spirit. We can determine how much energy a human being has by photographing the illumination of energy around a person which acts as a shield. When a human dies, this shield which was around the body never disintegrates. These forms are neutral to time and space which means that these forms can be here or in China without going through time and space. Various religious sects call this "soul travel." The Eckincar understanding of this particular experience will make you think that you can separate yourself and still be a complete human being.
Your energy has a form. Although you may not be able to do so yet, you will at some point in time be able to leave your body and go to any planet you care to.
There are all kinds of energies that human beings develop. There is a repelling energy (from a depression point of view) and an attractive energy. You can have a great power of attraction.
There is a shield of energy (sometimes called aura) that we always have around us which we can now photograph. The better shape you're in, the stronger this shield is. It protects us but only to a limit. Dead bodies don't have this energy shield. Hitting a dead body is ten times more detrimental than hitting the aura or shield. A sharp clap of the hands would make us deaf if we didn't have this shield. All animals have this aura around them. By instinct they do what they must to keep up this protective aura. If we could photograph the human cell, we would also see the aura around it. These energies must be kept up as there are many things in present day society that pressure us. Persons that dissipate in any way lessen these protective energies. This is the reason why a fighters have to be in such great shape. On a TV program they showed a person's protective energies before and after this person became angry. Their energies were less after they became angry. Masturbation is one of the number one things that reduces this shield.
Humans store the energy that comes out of a electromagnetic field. This energy is an electromagnetic field which protects us from pressures around us. How do you know whether or not you have enough of this energy? There is a test better than any instrument made. Stand nude in a climate of 32 degrees above zero Fahrenheit. If you do not shiver for the first ten minutes, then you have enough energy; your energy is normal. Otherwise, your energy is not normal. When winter comes, most automobiles start to show up many problems. This is particularly true in the east where there is this 32-degree weather or lower. The same type of thing is true with the human body; when winter comes, you get colds and pneumonia. The reason for the ten minutes is because it takes ten minutes for the heat waves around you to disappear. I have done this many times. In Russia they have studied the human energy field around the body and have found that if the body is healthy, the body will have an illuminated colored aura. If there is stress on the cells, then the color will be a bluish color. If there is some desire, then it is red. In this society, because of all the stress, most energy fields would be blue-green. They tested and found that the farmer had the normal energy field. Also if the person walked barefooted on the ground, grass, etc, you could see the energy field becoming stronger all the time. No one should wear rubber soles because it insulates you from the electromagnetic field of the earth.
All intellectuals were able to accomplish what they did by contacting higher sources or vibrations or waves. These living forms of energies are there but if you are disturbed, then you cannot get clear answers from them. Beethoven was able to contact these vibrations. It is not easy to get a complete answer so don't be disappointed if you fail. But remember that even if you only get a partial answer, you can probably work out the rest.
There are two fundamental hook-ups to these airwaves. The first is picking up what other people have already thought. These are the thought waves that come from humans. The second are called cosmic thought waves. Thought waves from humans are strictly different from cosmic waves; human thought waves can give you everything known up to date, but they cannot give you that extra step required to make a breakthrough. That something extra must come from cosmic waves. Your strong desire for a breakthrough will switch you automatically from human to cosmic thought waves. First learn all you can from the airwaves (human thought waves), then go to the cosmic waves (cosmic thought waves).
Your pineal glands transfer these waves for you; they are your antenna. Recently a pineal gland was removed from a human on the presumption that it was useless like an appendix. The person became mechanized like a robot, could only deal with the obvious and what was second nature, and was satisfied with things already known and wished to go no further.
Your dimension gives you the capacity to tune into the air waves. You develop into this dimension by seeing how orderly you can be all day in your thinking and in your actions. One part of this is asking yourself: Do I get mad at a sick person?
When you're bored, start hooking up to these air waves, and you won't be bored any more. If I wasn't hooked up, I couldn't have given you these passages.
The moral of this lesson is to tune in to the subject you are interested in, not to just one individual's thought waves. If you think of electricity, you shouldn't just think of one person such as Tesla. You should think in general terms and you'll get his thoughts as well. The reason why some people only know the answers they get from the library (which is good but very limited) is because they do not tune in; it is cosmic wave breakthroughs that are responsible for progress. Otherwise, we stay where we are, and this leads to the problem of emotional buildup which actually comes from lack of progress. If we had textbooks that dealt with subjects like this, we would need neither psychologists nor psychiatrists.
As of today we are not aware of such things as vibrations which exist between people. There is a difference between vibrations and thoughts. Birds, dogs, cats can pick up vibrations very easily, but not thoughts. Once in Michigan, I went to a farm to get some tools to fix my car which had broken down. I had no fears. I didn't know it, but the farmer had a dog who was a killer. When the farmer saw me playing with the dog and having made friends with it he said, "There's people who have lived around here for years, and he's never gotten used to them. You can use anything you want."
Some vibrations do not blend with each other. Can you recall at any time when a person did not say anything but you felt bad? This means that their vibration didn't blend in with yours. But this particular vibration will blend with others who have the same vibration. Certain energies will affect one person where they will not affect another.
It is more natural to die of hunger than to die of a disease. They're both deaths, but there is even such a thing as how a person dies which involves the kind of vibration you leave after you die. We think that because we cannot see them with the naked eye that these vibrations do not exist.
When vibrations have no place to go, they will take on real forms. Scientists in England have tested this. A piano started to play every day at a certain time. The scientists didn't believe it until they heard it for themselves. Also noises have been documented. It is good to know the reason for this so that we don't live in ignorance, so that we are aware that we can leave either good or bad vibrations
.How is it that vibrations can be left in a room? We must realize that any form of activity represents vibration. In fact, we ourselves carry vibrations.
Part of a Russian report concluded that if there is noise pollution, there will be many bad vibrations around you. Also because of other disturbances such as air pollution, medicines are of little value.
People who are on the good road cannot be influenced by forms which are bad and on the contrary when you have a strong moral condition yourself, these things (demons) cannot bother you. Nor do demons bother the really devilish people; they enter completely innocent people, little babies, and children. Babies, however, must live in a very bad environment. In a good environment demons still wouldn't be able to bother them. There was a blind man who was bothered by a ghost. His piano began to play by itself. I diagnosed the case this way. The man had killed someone and no matter where he went, these ghosts would bother him.
Conditions around people are what create demon possession; people, if they are not strong enough, can pick up thoughts.
All people that die should be cremated; putting them in the soil doesn't do the soil any good. Fertilizer is live bacteria; the soil doesn't need dead bacteria. This is the purpose of the vulture; it eats dead bacteria. The dead should not be buried. The purpose of burying is just to soothe our emotions. This energy from human beings never rests when the body is buried. Statistically if you study families who have their dead relatives cremated, you will never find that these had emotional problems connected with the death of these relatives in the family.
Twenty years ago I explained to a group of intellectuals that in the future we would experience life in the form of blobs. Such blobs were just recently found in Texas. A blob is a transplanted material of living matter from outer space. Its purpose is to give us a lesson on what the real purpose of living is for. But our reaction has been: to think that someone is trying to take over so that we have to kill this matter. When that woman in Texas chopped up the blob, there were just smaller bodies of the same matter moving around. The real significance of this is as follows. We were not meant to sit still on one planet forever. We must travel to other planets and use them doing all this without the need for any space ships.
The blob is the highest form of development of living matter. It is about 50 million years more advanced than we are. It has no cerebral cortex (wherever there is a cerebral cortex, there is reasoning). Nor does it have any form of instinct like a fly which flies away when you try to kill it. It is not afraid because it knows that people cannot hurt it. The blob thinks like this: These people think that I look awful and feel sorry for me, but they can be killed with one piece of metal (a bullet). I come here to show these people-of-low-development that I can be cut up into many pieces and still live. But instead of learning from me, they want to kill me. Their concern is when they're going to die. They don't want to learn how to live forever. To top this off, instead of realizing that they can cut me up and I can still live, they call me a bacteria. Well it's a good thing they don't call me a virus which isn't even a cell but only a molecule, and a virus can only live off somebody else.
The blob says: "I will not judge or ridicule people of earth because these living forms are infants in their thinking. I have a brain in every cell of my body whereas they have only one brain for their whole body. If scholars of earth do not learn in time, we will not force them, but we will not give them any alternatives either because this is the way the central law works. Does one have an alternative if they jump off a building and then while falling ask God to help them? Doing this is the same as jumping off a 20 story building and saying-after you pass the 10th floor-"so far so good." Earthlings have a lot to learn. They can't even say that life is theirs because if they could say this then they would keep it forever. Even if I were to get tired of living, there would be no way for me to stop living. This is just by way of comparison, not that I would ever actually get tired of living.
This might sound crazy but here is the idea. With enough knowledge we will be able to dismember ourselves into such little pieces that we will be able to change to adapt to any atmosphere. But instead of taking this blob and studying it, they mutilate it and try to kill it which only shows how stupid we are; we can't learn anything this way. It's no use trying to get a message from someone that's dead. Eventually we will learn. We're so young yet. After we know better, we will not do such things. As I explained it years ago, there will be such things and we will have to try to communicate with them. Humans can change so that they can live in any part of our universe.
With all that we have in quality of life, we are at the lowest form of infancy in comparison to other planets. If you ask a million people, you will find few who realize that higher forms of life exist on other planets.
Death is a solution which nature has depending on what you want. Nature will let you live for a hundred years or a million years depending on what you want. If the soul could talk, it would say this: you have a body which is a house and a mind which is the dimensions of the house. If you treat the body and the mind according to nature then you can live in this house forever. But if you allow both to break down, then you have to move out. When you are just a soul, then you don't need a place to live. For lower animals when they die, the energy will remain for a little while, but for humans the energy lives forever after the body dies. Death means a separation of the house and the one that lives in it. The one that lives in the house is life and it never gets buried. Even your body, the house, changes into another form and is completely utilized so that nothing actually dies. If you study a television, you will find that it is only a body which includes things like wiring, tubes, etc.; only when it's plugged in can you identify it as a "television." Likewise, only when you are "plugged in" can you identify yourself as a "human being." There is so little for us to live with because we base so much of our thought on the body. This is the meaning of the biblical saying: What does it profit us if we gain the world and lose our soul.
People are afraid of death because they think only about the house the soul lives in and not about the soul itself. When a person we love dies, then the question we must ask is do we miss the person's life or do we miss their body. If it is their life that we miss, then remember that their life is never buried. It is still here only it is not connected to the body. Instead of grieving and being unhappy, apply your time to pursuing more knowledge to keep body and soul together for a longer period of time.
The only truth that everyone faces, the only thing that we can't argue with is death. But the real truth is that there is no such thing as death. The natural law says you never have to die. We accept death and yet there is no such thing; things merely change from one thing to another. This is not reincarnation. Nothing ever fails to be useful. Who would think that a little speck of paper on the floor is useful? The only reason we think this way is because we don't have a use for it.
The self-nature has to have a place to live in; it's like a tenant. When the subconscious disturbs and destroys the house, then the self-nature moves out.
Reincarnation exists, but there is no use believing in it unless you know all the details. Say you have a television that breaks down so that it is impossible to repair. Then you get a new television. The difference is that you are using a new set but with the same electric plug. The newborn are connected to what has lived in the past as well as to themselves. Einstein's knowledge-if you are interested-is reincarnated to you plus your own knowledge. The lie is that you can be reincarnated into lower forms of life, like a cow or a rat. All energies are absorbed. Like they say: ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Nothing is lost. The body goes back to the soil and is used thus. Energies go back into the universe and are used.
For humans there is no beginning nor is there an ending. Indeed, there is no beginning and no end to anything in the universe. To be free, forget about beginnings and forget about endings.
All things whether biological or not are subject to the laws of evolutionary change. But when it comes to humans, because of that extra development called the cerebral cortex, you have to distinguish between humans and everything else. Regardless of their training or practice, no animal has been able to go from one state of perfection to the next; their state of perfection never changes. Because of their ability to go from one dimension to another, humans are called the third-dimensional animal. Einstein has shown us the fourth dimension. This dimension requires a greater knowledge of time and space, and we have within ourselves all that we need to do this only we must know how to develop it.
The main purpose of the conscious ego (of the conscious state) is growth in awareness. Awareness of life is life itself; without this awareness there is no true purpose of living. Did you know that there is not one human being that is completely without hope. Hope is there as long as there is awareness of life.
Awareness can be partial or total. Only your self-nature is totally aware. To be totally aware involves a training using complete logic; you must use fundamental ways of thinking. Applying complete logic to yourself is different than trying to apply it outside of yourself. If you can eliminate doubt, your self-nature can accomplish things. It can grow two inches more on one leg, for example, if this is what you need. But don't make a mistake here. It is not the doubt that would stop you from growing back the two inches nor the lack of faith. The only thing that would stop you would be the lack of awareness that you have that self-nature and that it can do it.
First understand that awareness can work for you. Be aware of what you want or even what you don't want. Then self-nature does the rest. This awareness must be very strong, and it runs on different levels. How do we know if our awareness is strong or weak? Our awareness must be on a life-or-death level. If your life depended on your walking on water and your awareness was very powerful, your self- nature could create a particular gas that would make you lighter than water. Such a case has been documented. This doesn't happen every day because we don't put ourselves in such a position. Nevertheless, we must apply this same strong awareness to everything else, and it must be of the same quality of awareness as needed to walk on water to save our lives. The story of the little girl who lifted a loaded wagon to save her little brother illustrates that this awareness must be a life-or-death matter. The man who walked on water lived in a cave and was exposed to the least amount of desires. This was the only way he knew how to accomplish this. The key to all this is to exercise a strong awareness concerning what you want or what you don't want.
A person's worst is never all at once; ones thinking always remains part of self-nature. We believe that our thinking is greater than the self-nature, but in reality the only reason why a person is able to know something is because of the self-nature. And just as soon as a person does know something, they make the first mistake; they build an egotistical monument to themselves. From this point onwards all knowing becomes superficial. On the other hand, knowing your self-nature can increase your knowledge because this is where knowledge comes from. The reason why a dog moves its bowel in one place and then scratches up the dirt in another place is because there are two forms of consciousness in the dog. This places it above the cat, for example, which doesn't act like this. Humans have the same dual consciousness: the one is the conscious and the other is the self-nature. In socialism, self-nature is never left out; there is always integration (physics integrated with biology).
Awareness is the important thing. It assures you of progress.. Be aware of the good things and the bad, of what is natural and what is unnatural. Don't ignore anything. Anything you ignore you must pay for. When you are aware of what's bothering you, you get hurt much less than when you are unaware. If it is a very hot day and you think not of the heat but of something good and enjoyable that you're going to do later when you get away from the heat, then things won't be so bad. The same applies if, for example, someone throws a rock thru your windshield. If you don't get mad but realize that this is just the system of this society which is the cause, then you suffer much less. When you expect what is going to happen to you, you can use some sort of guide. When you don't expect what's going to happen, then you're unprepared to do anything about it when it happens. If you expect that it's going to rain, then you take your umbrella. If you are aware that the system can hurt you, then you're not apt to get hurt. In all stages of development we do a lot of ignoring until we become aware of what we ignore. The more intelligent you are, the less you ignore. Do not ignore clinical studies because these supply you with the details. They are similar to the steps necessary before you get to communism: democracy, people's republic, and socialism. These steps must be there. Awareness deals with past, present, and future. You are not rational at all when you ignore the present.
At all times we have to at the least be aware of a higher development.
When you understand "the whole works," then fear is eliminated.
How many people will recognize the dialectics of nature and stick with it? No smart person has ever predicted the outcome of a society. All intellectuals have to be aware that they are ignorant in some things. When this awareness is there, then everything is all right. Here the system makes you go against yourself. When you're able to recognize what's good for you and what's bad for you, this is when you go with nature. Realize how important health is, the ability to move a finger or your eyes, and so forth. Realize what is happening. You have the voluntary and the involuntary central nervous system. The rhythm of your heartbeat deals with the involuntary system. The involuntary and the voluntary systems intercommunicate whether we are aware of this or not. The older we get, the more the voluntary becomes aware of the involuntary system. The purpose of conscious awareness is to determine whether or not your voluntary will go along with the involuntary. An infant's voluntary system doesn't know enough to interfere with its involuntary system. The activity of their cells is normal because there is no interference. If we were to examine grownups to determine the different ways they interfere with their involuntary systems, we would find that this depends on the kind of environment they live in. How orderly is the system of society you live in? How orderly is your environment? If it is disorderly, the voluntary system imposes stress on your cells. Worries and difficulties in coping with realities are examples of things that put stress on cells. If you earn $500.00 a month, and rent is $350.00 a month, and you are unable to keep up with the rate of inflation, and you're unable to cope, this creates stress on your cells. Your microbes become disturbed and no medicine of any kind can deal with it. Cells react according to the way a person behaves. If the cells are interrupted, they won't work properly. Often we go against the dialectics of nature. Only historical, dialectical materialism goes with the dialectics of nature. Only a socialist society, under the guide of scientific communism, is able to give you somewhat of a normal environment so that cells can perform correctly. Socialism, in sum, is the solution. How do we know this is correct? In Russia they are studying the language of the cells. It is shown that when stress is put on cells, they don't function properly. Such information is available, but don't try to force it on a capitalist system which is disorderly. All of this can be expressed in terms of the fundamental laws-1) the opposites; 2) the changing from a quantity to a quality; and 3) the negation of the negation-but this is not easily understood because so much of the information we get is half-information.
The strength of awareness depends on how clean we can keep it from everything else. (One is afraid to let go of what they have is only because they have no idea of what is better.) Some key factors of awareness are so simple that we fail to evaluate them. If you tell an intellectual that awareness can cure cancer, they will not accept it. But this is exactly what causes the spontaneous remission that cures cancer. People believe that goodness is something which someone must give you. But in fact it is awareness that brings about the good. This is what Christ was able to do; he created an awareness in people so that they could cure themselves.
Every step you take must be 100% clear. Being clear is living. If you're not clear, then you're not living. Clarity is living matter; it has absolutely nothing to do with physics. When clarity is integrated with physics, then for the first time there will be a clear view of the universe and its meaning.
Spirits know things 100% clearly. (These energies deal with subjects.) Illiterates can also be very clear (the Lourdes Miracles, for example). But because such a small percentage of the population have such clarity, you must go by the scientific method. When you have order, you can apply science so that everyone can benefit.
The subconscious is the transferring point between the self-nature and the conscious state, the transformer to the conscious state. Mind is connected to the subconscious. Mind is connected to time but the subconscious is not.
The subconscious only deals with 100% truth. We are supposed to allow the subconscious to guide the conscious. If it wasn't for the subconscious, we would never reach that awareness or uneasy feeling that comes when we don't have the truth, and which remains until we find it. Awareness deals only with the conscious state relative to any subject.
J. C. Casey, an illiterate hillbilly, was able to talk elaborately on medicine and even write prescriptions when asleep. But all this disappeared when he awoke. This is how powerful the subconscious is. 90% of his predictions came true. But who wants to have an injury like he did, so that we too could do the same thing.
Mind is our lowest level of development. The difference between the mind and the brain is this: the brain is just an office person carrying out orders; it neither thinks nor creates. All these orders are involuntary, and we have little or nothing to do with them (for example the making of blood). The mind takes care of the voluntary. You say: "I have a good mind to do so and so," and not "I have a good brain to do so and so." The mind deals with logic and the conscious self.
What is the definition of a thought? A thought is an eternal substance. It acts like a chain reaction. This is why thoughts can be linked one to the other. If this were not so, the chain reaction of logic would not exist. If there were any disconnection, there would mean death to thoughts. The cycle of anything orbiting in the universe is never broken. A body may disintegrate, but even then another body takes its place. If this were not the case, we would continually be losing instead of replacing one with another. There are two fundamental types of thinking. One is called "creating the road for thinking for a particular subject." This is the hardest form of thinking. After this road is created, then you have the second kind of thinking which is walking or thinking on the road which has already been created. After the road is made, there is little sweat. Walking through fresh snow is hard, but after it has been walked upon, you can walk thru it easily. Paving the road to a particular subject is the hardest form of thinking.
Thought travels much faster than the speed of light. It travels so fast that as yet we have no idea of its speed, but by integrating biology with physics-when biology and physics communicate with each other-we will know. The speed of thought has been proven, but we don't as yet have a mathematical formula for it. The measure that we use now is light "miles." Our next measure will be in thought "miles."
You use more energy thinking than in digging ditches; it can make you sweat. This shows how much friction you create when you think. One hour of bookkeeping is the equivalent of eight hours of manual labor, and it is for this reason that there is more nervous breakdowns among bookkeepers than in any other professions. In the future, we will be able to recognize this and give bookkeepers their due. To maintain normalcy they should only do two hours of their work per day.
Thoughts have power if no other thought interferes. It is division of thought that makes it nothing. Other thoughts create static which is any form of interference. When thoughts become free of static (when they are filtered) you see yourself from a different perspective. The purest form of filtering is to go (fully equipped) onto a mountain for 20 or 30 days. If you're not disturbed and you can lay out beneath the stars or in a secluded place where there is no interference, this is the most effective form of thinking.
In transmitting and receiving you have two limits: the conscious and the subconscious. Your conscious limit works like this: if there is no interference, your conscious limit does not disturb your subconscious limit. This is why you can experience so much on a mountain; consciousness does not interfere with subconsciousness. The reason why it's so difficult to psychoanalyze a dream is because of interference. Dreams are all mixed up; they are unfiltered, unclear. If you had a dream on a mountain, it would be so clear that you could write out every detail.
No matter what action you take there must be thought before it. Without thought you could not move a finger. Thoughts are things only when accompanied by action. If you think about having your neighbor's wife, you might as well have her; it's the same thing. When you have a thought, it is picked up by the airwaves. People elsewhere in our universe can pick up these transmissions if there is any reason or motive for doing so. A thought travels the same as any planet; it is not curved. When someone thinks but doesn't act, then someone else benefits by this. Those who benefit from these thoughts are not original. When you get an idea that's practical, remember that there are at least 1000 people who get the same idea but do nothing about it. When I finish explaining thoughts, no one will be able to say they are original.
Thoughts come in various and unlimited amounts of forms depending on how you're going to use them. The shortcoming of grown-ups is that they want to observe everything with the naked eye.
Concentration is when consciousness shines its light on some particular item. When you know something, know it completely. This is a person's security. If you take a match and hold your finger over the flame, it will get very hot whereas if you move your finger back and forth thru the flame, it will not get very hot. We are so unspecific, and this is why we are unable to concentrate on the truth. There is only one reason for the nipple on a man's breast.
When you want something, it must be in complete consciousness. The laws of nature know no such a thing as 99% correct. Nature works with completeness. You are natural when you know completely what little you may know. We don't realize the value of knowing things completely; if we did, we would not be dissatisfied with knowing so little. The quick solution is not the complete one. The complete solution requires energy and thinking, and few want this. All want that fast solution, and no one wants to make it complete; everyone wants that partial answer. The thing is complete accomplishment and not just half knowing one thing and then half knowing something else. It is better to have a complete view of a little than an incomplete view of a lot. We get fooled when we only look at one side of something like when some people say, "See, I've gone to the moon."
The actual meaning of "awareness" is IT. Unless you know IT, you will never know that which is bothering you. If you are aware of a certain disease, then you no longer have it. Whatever you are not aware of is the IT that bothers you. When you become aware, then IT bothers you no more; once you understand something, then it can't bother you.
You have to understand the difference between what is abstract and what is real. When you live in a society, you must be truthful in whatever you are doing. American people are trained not to accept the thing as it is. It's natural here for this condition to exist: the less reality, the better. Philosophy is the abstract of the truth. We don't learn the truth from an abstract. The abstract is made to look like the truth. So when you are an artist and you express your art on the foundation of fantasies, there will always be this question: "What is it?" You answer that an abstraction or philosophy can give you an idea. But an idea is not final until you can develop the basic principles of the idea. So if you are the kind of artist who starts out with the abstract and ends up with the abstract, then this is bad. Artists deal with reality, with how much reality they can bring out; all programs must have a pattern. Fantasy is when you don't have an idea/pattern of what you want to do, as for example an artist who splashes paint on a canvas.
Where does the abstract come from? Can you show me anything abstract that you cannot identify with something that is well known? What might appear to be a face on the moon, when you get right down to it, is only shadows; the background is accidental. In music all abstractions are welcome. To understand this well, it is good to welcome anything that appears to be the truth, even though you may find out later that it is not. Suppose you're an artist in Russia and you paint a beautiful picture of a beggar. The people there come to you and say: "Why do you paint such a picture? We gave millions of lives so that such things won't exist." In China and Russia begging do not exist anymore. If a child in such a country were to see such a painting, they would ask: "What is the person in the picture doing? Why do they have to beg? Aren't cripples being taken care of?" For older people such a thing can be useful as a comparison, but it becomes a confusing thing especially to young people. In these countries life is not based on the past but on the present and the future.
No dream can be interpreted in terms of complete reality; it is an abstract from reality. What you dream will never be exactly so; it only represents an image. But even an image is good if it is used to represent something real. When you think about things before going to bed, be very positive. The clearer and more positive your thinking is, the clearer will be any dreams you may have.
There are two kinds of abstract. One is when you're conscious (a conscious imagination). Then there is a subconscious abstract. Out of an imagination which comes from a conscious imagination we're able to create a reality. But out of a subconscious imagination no reality can be created. Say you dream that you killed somebody. There is no way you can create a reality out of this; in fact you're afraid of it. That is a subconscious imagination and a bad one. Say we have a good subconscious imagination. This can be connected with a conscious imagination only because of conscious interest. You can somehow connect what is good with conscious interest, but you certainly don't want to have anything to do with the bad. When you dream of killing somebody, you never really finish that dream; you cannot get to the end of anything it in a dream that you cannot reproduce in reality. You wake up before you finish it. The worst criminal, though they may be able to kill in real life, are unable to finish this act in their dreams. Very few old people have complete nocturnal emissions. The old person consciously feels that they are not able to do it whereas the young person does consciously feel able to do this. The younger you are, the more realistic your dreams are.
Don't measure learning by the dollar.
All students get sick because they must leave their security behind and begin to use new brain cells. When you go to a higher cycle of perfection you cannot take things from the old cycle with you.
Any person who causes dormant cells to become active in you, you will hate for a time. What you are actually doing, however, is not hating that person. This higher level attacks your state of security. This is what you hate, not the person. Whenever dormant cells become active, it makes you realize that your thinking must be broader or on a higher level than what you had before. It's the same thing as when an athlete can jump seven feet and feels secure in that level of development. Then comes another athlete that jumps 7 1/2 feet. Now that you're shown that it can be done, this attacks your security and makes you hate. Every person thinks of the least resistance: "Why did you have to show me a higher level," they say. But what is lost is least important; it only serves the purpose of change.
With what is already known, you don't even need thought waves. This deals with present vibrations; your system/mind picks them up. We must be able to distinguish between thought waves and "mind work." The mind can remember a poem without using the pineal gland, but it would be impossible to create one without a pineal gland. Conditions of a society can make you so dormant to thought waves that you become subject to memorizing what someone tells you. People, when affected in this way, will say to you in effect: "My mind is made up; don't confuse me with the facts." Interest and curiosity can be directed in two directions. One is when you're only interested in learning what someone else has learned, and the other is when you're interested to learn on your own (what you get from the thought waves). In other words, you either probe people's minds or you probe thought waves.
When you rely on notes to remember things you study, then the use of complete logic becomes very little developed. Memorizing is mechanical like a machine which is unnatural. Notes are the greatest crippler of the mind. Anytime you mechanicalize your way to remember, you're taking up space for valuable things to remember. The things which are important, you will remember naturally. When they asked Einstein why he didn't wear socks, he replied that he couldn't afford to have such unimportant matters take up space in his mind. Anything that becomes mechanical will crystallize your state of mind. When you're open to just the things you want to remember, this is what makes your mind flexible. When you go to a supermarket, for example, instead of relying on a list, try to think about what you need.
If you take any human being on this earth you will find that though practically all look alike, they change in dimension. Change of dimension has to do with your conscious state; with a change of dimension you are able to use your mind at a higher level than before.
The more intelligent the conscious state becomes, the less it interferes with the production of life. By doubting this "production of life" within, the conscious state interferes with this life by creating an oversized ego-the conscious mind creates its own god-and everything you do is to satisfy the conscious god instead of the God of nature. The first thing such a mind thinks is that it is more intelligent than life. If you feel like moving your bowel, it is the self-nature telling you this. But that oversized ego within says that it's OK to wait because you now happen to be busy. Women paint their faces to build a beauty that is not real; they look for a beauty which is not from within out so that when man and woman meet, all is well except that one has a long nose and this is not accepted. We worship "Miss America" as if she were a goddess and forget that the goodness in your mother outweighs the beauty of a "Miss America" in a million ways. There are millions of such false evaluations of life, and until we start to practice the true values of life, the human race will stay in a rut and never really have a chance to know the life within. By going with nature you can perform miracles. But when you don't know these things, then they will bother you. After you know them, then you start to become creative in building mind and body; you start becoming a human being.
The energy of earth can move millions of tons of matter in an earthquake. There is no limit to these energies because they work from a total accumulation of force which deals with cause and effect. When it comes to cause and effect within ourselves, you too can do the same thing, but the cause and effect must be there. If I as a human being have a pure reason to move a mountain, the less than 1% of my self-nature quickly tells me it cannot be done. But if I am aware completely of my self-nature, then it becomes simple. How can I detach myself from my conscious intelligence so that my self-nature can work on the problem (e.g. to move a mountain)? Do not allow your conscious intelligence to interfere with what the 100% of self-nature can do.
The more you apply the conscious part in connection with the primary part, the more various limits can be accomplished. In order to apply the conscious part of energy (which is limited) it is as simple as to understand that primary energy is unlimited. The conscious part of energy has a purpose, and that purpose is to see how much we can think without any limits. There is a documented case in which a 16 year old girl was able to lift a loaded wagon to save her brother's life. When the girl told her father what she had done, her father said that if she could do it to show him by lifting the wagon again. But now, because there was no life at stake and because the awareness of unlimited power did not exist, she was unable to lift the wagon again, and her father gave her a beating for lying. Awareness of this unlimited power can make you swim longer than any champion swimmer when life is at stake. It is because of that word "life," which is connected with unlimited primary energies, that this can happen. Though such experiences may only happen once in many years, they serve as an example of what awareness can do for you.
The subconscious lets out little bits of truth at a time. It never forces. This is why we must accept those little stages of development; we never become developed all at once. Also, this is why giving yourself and others a chance to develop is important; the human brain can only accept certain amounts of reality at a time, something that is never explained in our textbooks.-(I'll be better next month! or They'll be better next month!)-Too much truth/reality all at once would be like suddenly giving water to someone who is dying of thirst convinced that there is no water to be found. This would be hard to take for the human being, but this is the kind of pressure you would be under. If you were badly dehydrated and I were your doctor, I would know that you would not be able to take all the water at once. At first you should just wet your mouth and then afterwards a little bit and then some more. It is the same with divers; they must come up from the depths gradually. If every week every person here were to give just one penny and there were say 230 million people, there would be 2.3 million dollars at the end of each week. If you make it only 1/10th of a cent, it would bring in 230,000 dollars. Wouldn't you be willing to part with 1/10th of a cent a week. This is absolute truth. The truth has to be fed to many people and they have to live with it and digest it. Give the people a little of the truth at a time until they can see the whole truth.
To detail something so that it can have value you must be precise: mind and body together; mind depends on what you have to work with while the balanced physical exercise machine gives you coordination. Life is not accidental. The more you think in terms of chance, the less definite and the more skeptical you become; it's like writing a sentence without a period. The more you think in terms of being definite, the more you improve in that point of principle. When you know something, know it completely, put a monument on it. Preciseness deals with eliminating contradictions. Proof deals with the laws of the universe.
Life is definite and during your lifetime you have to know a few things that are definite. These are the things that keep you alive; they are life itself. Anything you know about the universe is alive in you, not temporary. It makes you feel important. The less we know about life, the less we are interested in ourselves and others. If you don t know a few things that are definite, you will have an attitude that says: "So what!" Few things will interest you. Also, these few things will not be a part of you unless you know them yourself; they will not become part of you just by someone else telling you that they are so.
Words themselves can make you think right or wrong. It you say: "Nothing is impossible," it is an unfinished philosophy. What you must say is: "Nothing is impossible pertaining to such and such." Then it is complete. Similarly, to say "I want freedom!" is unspecific. You must say, "I want freedom to do such and such." To say, "I want peace," is to be specific because the opposite of peace is war. But you can ask: "What kind of peace?"
What do you believe in? The answer must be IT. It must be something definite and not something general like nature. To say you are an atheist is an unintelligent answer unless you can be specific and prove how nature serves as the God that the religious person believes in.
Preciseness deals with eliminating contradictions. When you prove something, no one can contradict you. Your proof must deal with the laws of the universe, otherwise you're just dealing with a person's opinion.
When you use something, record with your knowledge as many details as possible relating to what you use. Any detail that you know becomes a part of the consciousness of the subject that you know. A man was walking in freezing weather, well aware that if he stopped he would fall asleep, freeze, and die. He came across another person lying on the ground with a weak pulse. Right away he went to work on the other and both reached their destination safely. The man who stopped and helped the other received adrenalin stimulation; he saved himself by saving the other. Adrenalin stimulation depends on your motive, and if this man had been concerned for himself alone, this would not have been enough stimulation. But when he saw the other man frozen, he saw himself. Seeing himself in that condition brought on that stronger stimulation. The next detail is the company which the second man gave to the first, talking and helping one another. Nothing can be digested unless all the details are given. Our textbooks fail to give us all the details. Dialectical materialism is usually given "cold turkey;" only the fundamentals are given. This is why there are relatively few members of the Communist Party in Russia. Details make fundamentals come alive.
If I can't take my time and give all the details in answering a question, then I won't try to give the "quick" answer because if I do this I know that I'll get sick. What we have here [experimental plants growing in the office, one with the drops and one without them] are approximate results without details. Without details, we are able to harness and get the results that we need. Knowing how to use something is the number-one accomplishment; discovering how to use a natural law as a tool is a step of security for humankind. Study to see what nature can give you, then while you use it, try to figure out why it is so. We are able to smash the atom without knowing the details of the atom. But this doesn't mean that we should ignore the study of details. We need details. When the time comes that we can understand the details of an atom, we will be able to recycle the energies that are put out. This means that we will be able to do the same as the sun is doing right now. Though we have been speaking about physics, the same thing applies to biology.
When we begin our work with the search for details, we are using the wrong method. First we should go to the principle of the subject, and then we should study the details. If we want to know why more men get bald than women, it is because more men wear tight hats than women, and this cuts off circulation. Nine out of ten uniformed men are baldheaded. Knowing this-the principle of the subject matter-is more important than details. One of the things that is wrong with science today is that they get "stuck" with certain facts.
The purest test of intelligence is to know the exact point, the purest form of an intelligent step. Einstein learned something new from the students at Princeton University. Using a penny and a mechanical tosser, the students found that it took 2500 times to get an even 1250 heads and 1250 tails. This happened 10,000 times, and it never missed once. After this Einstein wrote a book called cycles. He learned that when you learn one thing, you cannot apply it to many things.
Knowledge of one thing brings with it a chain reaction to knowledge of everything else. Answers in nature are not separate. They are all relative to other answers. In knowing one answer, you practically know the answers to all the others. You are a universe, and in a universe partial things don't work when you try to apply them. When you try to take and understand one item about the universe, you're nowhere. If you only try to understand one disease, that's already partial; you have to look at disease as a whole. But when the ego becomes inflated, small things like salt on the table don't matter anymore. The Rolls Royce automobile (because it doesn't have an ego) says, "Give me that cotter pin. I need it." But human ego is such that these "little things" don't matter, and when we neglect these "little things" we let ourselves into a mountain of problems. It is these "little things" that should matter first. Drops of water can eventually make a hole thru stone, so we must be aware that we cannot neglect any items ranging from the smallest to the largest. But, as the central law says, you are the nature and product of your environment. When it comes to nature, never say that you know it all.
Knowledge is capacity; it is only a tool that fits a particular subject that you wish to apply it to. Having the quality to apply what you know, makes what you know complete. You can observe the results of complete logic only when you have the quality to do so. Quality is necessary to apply complete logic. Americans overlook quality, quality that is necessary to apply that which they are aware of. Out of a hundred intellectuals there may be one honest one. Only this one person has the quality to be honest. Preaching will not help the other ninety-nine who don't have the quality to apply what they know-you do not yet have the answer if it does not come from within you. First comes knowledge, and then comes quality. Just understanding "comradeship" does nothing for you; it's quality which is developed by going thru experiences that counts. Yet, even if you show people that they are wrong and they still don't admit it, you can only say that they do not have the quality to do so.
Many things which you believe are actually so. But if they are actually so, they do not require belief. At the wedding feast at Cana Christ knew the wine was there; he didn't have to believe. The squirrel does not put away food IN CASE it might need some; it KNOWS that food will be needed. The expression, "to keep in reserve," does not apply to nature. To walk on water, you have to be aware that you can make yourself lighter than water. Christ was aware of this. To be aware of something means that you cannot have the slightest resistance to it. The energy required exists; all that is necessary is to have the development to use it.
After you discover something in the universe, it will appear extremely simple to you, and you'll wonder why no one thought of it before. It is impossible to beat life. How simple it is!
Belief can be contradicted but knowledge cannot be contradicted. The minute you say: "Do I have enough faith?" this spoils the whole works (everything). Do not get the word "awareness" mixed up with "belief;" belief is of a dual nature and works against your self-nature.
Let's define "faith." Few understand this word. Most people look at faith as a blind way of thinking where you close your eyes and things are done for you. The real meaning of faith is when you become completely conscious that it takes billions of chemical changes to create blood which is life; you absolutely do not doubt that this is being done for you and within you. It certainly does not depend on our thinking to make this possible; no laboratory can make one hemoglobic molecule. If we do not disturb our beautiful creation as a human being, we remain perfect in that creation. The more you're conscious that this is so, the less you interfere with this perfection. The true meaning of the word "faith" is: you would be a fool to contradict all that which is so intelligent that the human brain cannot yet understand, that from bread and water your body can make blood. So the true meaning of "faith" is COMPLETE CONSCIOUSNESS. Complete consciousness tries not to compete with this wonderful source of nature within us but tries to go along with it. Proper attitude is very important. You either have the attitude that you want to compete with it or go along with it. It costs you nothing when you go along with this wonderful nature of ours and lose a lot by going against it. Because you are connected with God, you can get whatever it is you absolutely need. To state this simply, whenever you are in need of something (absolute need, of course), if you have this awareness, then you will never fail in getting this absolute need. This is what Christ meant by "faith." Furthermore, there is no such thing as 99%-faith or "some" faith. Faith means 100% awareness that God is in you at all times. The one word that best explains "faith" is "awareness;" faith means awareness. Once you understand these things and know what faith is then you have the missing link needed to completely understand it.
If you want to be aware, don't lie to yourself that you are aware. You are aware that you need food and water to maintain the energy in your body for without these you know you will die. But if in spite of this you say to yourself that you don't think that you need food and water to maintain life, then this means that you are still not at all aware. What is the use of being aware of something and then thinking that it cannot happen? When you do this, the conscious brain continues to ignore this awareness until it becomes part of our consciousness. We consciously accept that we need food and water; we observe this with our eyes. Do you accept that you need the food and water because you have faith or because you believe in it? No! What this means is that some bit of intelligence you have acquired serves your consciousness for accepting food and water. When awareness becomes clear, it leaves no doubt; it becomes part of our conscious being, and it is then that we begin to cease resisting life. Faith is when you are aware enough to understand the thing itself as opposed to the illusion. Blind faith leads only to illusion.
Nature gives life an identification to show you how important it is. Identification is like a fingerprint; there is no one like you. Don't forget this. Identification helps you recognize yourself, and this is very important. All this has to do with yourself, with what you want, with what's good for you. The more you think of yourself, the more you can be yourself, and this is where personality stands out. The less you think of yourself, the less you want to be yourself. The important thing is to understand that personality is how much you are of yourself. What makes a person not be themselves are the guilts they carry in their subconscious.
True identity is the hardest thing to realize. It's must come by itself; you do not and can not look for it. Don't even ask yourself what you want. By eliminating most of the disturbances, what you want to be will surely come out. Then simply follow it. But remember, there will be many obstacles to stop you. Don't be surprised when they come. Understanding this you have a true purpose for living, working, and doing what you do. The central law is the source of identification; this is how we get it. Don't look at dying as ruin or as losing identification. When the central law gives identification, it is the only one possible. So when you think of identification, think not in terms of fingerprint, but in terms the causes and effects which make that fingerprint. These are never lost and are still there-when the body ceases to exist-except that now the central law says that there is nothing there for it to put a fingerprint on for what was has changed.
Characteristics of identifications are recorded in the air waves (see index). If these characteristics are destructive, they destroy themselves. If they are constructive, they remain. All you have to do is to be in that category of thinking, and you can pick up the details of Newton's discovery of gravity from the air waves. If it wasn't for these air waves, we could not reproduce the connection needed to make the next step. These air waves are as necessary as the links of a chain or the steps of a latter; without them there would be no way to climb.
When you come into this world, your first concern is to make something out of yourself. When you find out what you want to do (your identification), then you will be at rest but not until then. In fact, until you find the identification of what you like to do, you are dissatisfied with yourself to such an extent that thru this dissatisfaction you punish yourself in many ways, and he more you punish yourself, the further it drives you away from what you want to be. But when you do discover your identity (what it is you would like to be), then instead of punishing yourself, you start to reward yourself. This is when you really start enjoying life. And this is what makes me a good cook; it's one of the ways of rewarding myself because I love to eat. A lack of ambition means a lack of identification with yourself or with what you like to do. You identify yourself as a person, and naturally you defend yourself with all the rights belonging to a person. Most people don't want to be their real selves because they dislike themselves. But if you are your real self, you will be less alone for you will have spirits with you that you want to be with you. Every generation has certain people in whom you cannot kill the desire of their true selves like Copernicus, Einstein.... To be yourself is the hardest thing to do, especially in the society that we live in. The first thing we do is look for any dissatisfaction that we find in ourselves. We seldom take time to stop and consider the opposites: What does satisfy me? If you let children be undisturbed, they will show you what they want to be. It is hard to tell a person that they are not themselves. To be yourself is an accomplishment. You become completely weightless, and your energies take on your form. Then you can leave your body here and go to Italy if you wish. This is possible when you really work at being yourself.No matter how much a psychologist or others tell you the good things about yourself, these are meaningless until you can find this out about yourself.
The less you groom yourself, the more you can see of yourself. You can never really see yourself by looking in a mirror; all you see is the outside which represents very little. When you reach a high enough development, you can close your eyes and look at yourself. This is the best "mirror," but it takes a long time to attain such a development; it is part of a training which involves practice, but if you work at it, you will not have to worry about someone who comes at you with a knife or gun. No kind of strain is necessary; you can completely control someone who wants to hurt you.
Ego is a conscious true evaluation of yourself; it is knowledge of your values. Its purpose is to help us observe and evaluate ourselves. When we use ego to devalue someone else, then we devalue ourselves. The handsome man who says to himself that he can take a woman away from another man who is less handsome than himself is destroying that which he wants for himself; even if he does get what he wants, it will do him no good because conceit never fails to destroy itself. The way we should look at ourselves is like this. I am the highly successful thoroughbred race horse Secretariat. If I am going to run with horses of lesser quality than myself, then I will have to accept so many more pounds on my back to give the others a chance. Otherwise, it will not really be a horse race. We also must do the same with our own values; we must give everyone else an equal chance. If we do not do this "handicapping," then we will eventually be left alone unable to communicate with everyone else. It is a law of nature. Here is an analogy about a tiger and a hunter. The hunter knows the pattern of the tiger, that it will eventually come down to the water hole. The hunter using intelligence which the tiger doesn't have, does not give the tiger an even break and so cannot have any feeling of importance in killing it.
Ego inflation begins when we start comparing ourselves to others who have less. One of the consequences of building up a false ego is that we fail to recognize the right mate for us when they come along; what we choose is the reflection of our false ego. Ego gives us pleasure when we realize creative accomplishments, but it can also magnify many times what a person has whether in personality or creativity; it can make liars out of us. This is why people claim to be original in their ideas. But we are original only when we become creative. How many times have you heard the expression: "I've thought about that." What is original is the creation, not the idea. Pride builds up inside you so that it works against you. Never let ego become your master. It is like a knife: useful or dangerous. It can limit progress. An inflated ego causes you to stop thinking. It blocks out foresight because it cannot recognize where ideas come from. Genuine pride is believing in yourself. What made people such as Mozart or Einstein stand out was their awareness of other's abilities. We have been trained to think that only certain people are gifted by God. The more you think like this the less you'll be able to find yourself.
The great human mistake-made for years and years-is that ego says that it is greater than life itself.
The only way you'll be disturbed is if you allow people to disturb you. You can let the moon, among other things, affect you when you don't realize that you must be complete master of yourself. The more you try to go away from this, the rougher it gets. All you have to do is to master yourself to a degree where you can attain a balance. This is a person's obligation to themselves. There's no excuse. You yourself are a governing unit, and you must create your own equilibrium. The true meaning of all jealousy is lack of self-confidence. I'll never lose confidence in myself. This is the truth, and I don't want any lies. You have to learn how important it is never to lose one bit of confidence in yourself. When you practice this, dormant cells actually become alive and usable like many unused muscles in your body coming into use. These cells become stronger and are usable at all times. People don't realize that such things exist. Rapists do not have confidence in themselves. If they did, there would be no problem. Whatever form of insecurity you have, start every day to build up security within yourself like saving money a little at a time.
There isn't one person who doesn't have something that they enjoy doing. Do more of such things. Have an absolute relationship with yourself, a complete love affair with yourself. As a kid, I used to admire my grandfather for loving himself as he did. By doing this you actually improve the environment around you. Also, it becomes easier for you to find your true abilities. It works like magic. People will want to know what makes you so happy or what your secret is. We are still in such an infantile state that we haven't yet begun to fully communicate with ourselves. When a person gets mad, they bite their nails and their lips-they hurt themselves. Be good to yourself and your environment.
Whenever you set out to discover something, don't ever think what it's going to do for somebody else; think of what it'll do for you. When you do things for yourself first, and they are multiplied by many. When I used the mineral drops to rejuvenate an old man, I did it for myself to see if they would work. I didn't feel sorry for him. Artists may appear to be the most "selfish" people in the world; at least that's the way some people see them because there is nothing outside of their art that concerns them. Yet these "selfish" people are the most unselfish when it comes to giving art to the rest of the world; when their art work comes out, it is everlasting. The real reason why they are considered selfish is because they will not indulge in the wasting of time.
Culture is the freedom to express your true ability; it is not based on how much you know. A free person is often considered arrogant. Existentialism in France the was so pure that it flooded Europe with culture. These people wanted to have as much time as possible to do only what they wanted to do, and many of them became wealthy doing this. This is how we're raised here: without ever knowing what we were meant to be. The time needed to do the things we like to do, is interfered with by the time needed to make a living. France became culturally developed because people there applied the minimum of time to what had to be done and the maximum of time to what they liked to do. An existentialist society was formed on this basis. Here in this country we also had the same kind of movement, but it was called the hippie movement. It was based on using the least amount of time doing the things you needed to do to exist and the most time doing what you liked to do. This is true of the hippie movement with the exception that there are two kinds of hippies: the working hippie who earns his living and the non-working hippie who doesn't. This is like the difference between the hobo and the bum: the hobo is willing to work for the minimum of what they need, but the bum will not work at all.
Values are real when you are aware of them. Real values are unbeatable. If Beethoven were paid in whole for what he gave to the world, he would be one of the richest persons in the world, but really it would change nothing. There are not enough diamonds and gold to buy such values. Yet, however "big" Beethoven was in music, everyone is just as important as him in their own way. This is difficult to see and must be read again and again to create a consciousness. If everyone were to find their own "subject," then each in their own "subject" would be equal to the greatest. When you fail to do this, you are unaware of how important you are in your own things. If a cotter pin could talk, it would say, "I am just as important as everything else on the car." Only when you know that what you have is just as important as what another might have in their own subject or field, only then do you begin to think something of yourself and begin to communicate. You say to yourself, "I have a value in my subject that is equal to the value in their subject."
It is wrong to think that you're better than anybody else; no one is more important than the people as a whole. The minute your value becomes more important than the value of all those around you, then this is wrong. You are no more important than anyone else in the world and no one else in the world is more important than you. Each has a low level that becomes equal with the worst. Try to reach a level where no one is above you and no one is beneath you. If you have this understanding, nothing else is required. But you should not get involved in just "believing" this; you've got to "know" it. A blind man saved his three year old daughter from drowning in a pool. If you asked him before this how important he was, he probably would have said that he wasn't very important. But afterwards he did realize his importance. Don't look to prove it to yourself as this man did; he certainly didn't look for this to happen. Every passing day you are important to yourself and maybe to someone else.
Whatever little reason people have to live with themselves this keeps them alive. Live with yourself. Take an interest in yourself. This runs in levels. If you only live with a little of yourself, then you fight with the rest of yourself. You can find hours and hours to fight with yourself, but not one hour to make something out of yourself. You punish yourself in many ways when you fight with yourself because you think you're not what you should be; in most cases you become victims of the punishment you bring on yourself. If you meet someone of the opposite sex that thinks a lot of you, you can either disbelieve this or try to build yourself as much as they think of you. This works the same with what others think of you. Any way that you can, put out some particular effort (for example physical exercise or playing an instrument). As soon as you do so, you will begin to feel more valuable to yourself. Get away from mystery. If you are able-bodied and don't work, who is going to support you? You know this; it is not belief. The more aware you become of "little" but important things like these, the more important will things become to you and the more important will you become to yourself. In a society like this where people are hungry for importance, it is even more necessary to be aware of such "little" but important things. Remember that if you have a million dollars and don't see yourself as important, your money will go away as if it were nothing because you will try to buy importance. It is thinking like this that prevents you from becoming a victim of complexity in any way.
Communicating with others builds self-importance. An employee in a department store was recommending other stores for items she didn't have in her department. Her manager fired her when he heard about this. But the boss got an idea and started to advertise that this was the only store that even calls other stores to see if they've got what it didn't have. They rehired the employee. Just as you would hate to be dependent on someone else, don't look for someone to depend on you.
Though you may be unaware of your own value, this does not mean that you don't have it. By just holding that you are a unique development, you place a greater value on yourself.
If you keep passing work off to others, then you forget your own importance and find yourself saying: "They can always get someone else to do the work that I do." Try this daily exercise; write down what you did for that day.
Never lose respect for yourself. Many in this environment ask you to lose your self-respect in front of them. Don't ever let anyone tell you how much your work is worth. Stick to your values. If you let another establish your value, you'll be sick. Fears keep people from starting something with that creative ability which each person possesses. The chain reaction of having no security is that you have very little self-confidence, and this alone creates practically all the fears that exist today. What can we do about all this? The textbooks we have do not even begin to solve the problem. I am unable to get a job because at 63 years of age no insurance company will take me. But even without financial security, I feel like a millionaire. Why? This feeling is acquired by creating something better than what the world has. If all people in any society were to think like this, then no one would ever commit suicide. Even if you never sell one item that you create, what is important is knowing that you have created something better than what anybody else has. This is true whether what you make deals with a higher level of thinking or of a higher level of technology. To state it simply: you must not just settle for the things that you see or have; you must take the next step. When you do this, it connects you to yourself. Just copying something else will not accomplish the same thing. The whole purpose and meaning of life is to do things just a little bit better. Working with others when you are making things is even better; it leads you to the things that you are to create.
Security is like a vicious circle. It deals with identifying yourself as important. The reason why six million Jews were killed is because they were ignorant. They worked all day for their food, and then they thanked God for it. They thanked something they knew nothing about.
Most are not developing themselves so they look for flattery even if it's not true. Very few get enjoyment just by wat