The first thing that might that be of interest to us when we take our time to leave whatever job,be uncomfortable and what have you, is to consider what are we doing here. Now if we care to gather up a whole bunch of notes and tape recordings so that you can learn a lot, you probably will waste your time. If we will kind of watch going on inside your head, as we try and bring forth a viewpoint of which we have based in many kinds of superstitions and what have you, you might find it extremely useful to you. What really goes on in the mind is of very great importance to us, and if we are totally unaware of it we might as well be sound asleep in a comfortable bed somewhere. Now when we bring up various propositions you will find that the mind does certain things with it if you are observing the mind. Now if you are busy taking notes of course you will be careful getting your notes down accurately. If you're watching your tape recorder to be sure it's running right, while you will also know about your tape but you won't know what's going on inside you. Now you may make all the notes you like, run all the tape recorders you want, we have no objection. But we are suggesting that first we see what we are here for. Because if all we wanted was notes, you might as well of sent the tape recorder and stayed at home. You know? It would have been easier. I'd give the same talk, it's alright. So what we first want to know is what we are doing here is to know ourselves better. The self is the mind. We have more than one mind working, so we say one thing and a proposition comes up and three or four things begins to play with it. Now we will try to observe these. If a question comes up write it down, don't but in at the moment. Wait until the talk is over and then we will at the end of every talk discuss questions to the fullest extent that we can discuss them. Also will you please ask the question while we are in the session instead of waiting until the session is over because usually we find that there are gobs of questions in between talks and not to many at the talks. So there will not be any questions entertained between talks only during a conference session and when that is over there will be a few minutes to relax, rest, and we'll start over again. We have to let these soft chairs relax a little bit now and then, you know?So please ask your questions during the time while we are working on them. Now the other thing that we would ask is that there is a great number of people in the room so will you please not smoke. I like to smoke as well as anybody but lets don't smoke when there's a great crowd of people in a small room, okay? Then we can all divulge outside, contaminate the atmosphere, in between times, but not inside the room, if you will please. Okay?
The first subject is, is what is our purpose? Now we have the picture of man which we are all well acquainted with I'm sure. So we have the basic decisions in the center which is the subconscious mind. Now we'll never get rid of the subconscious mind but we can make it conscious. But all of the ideas that it contains will be present with us. Now seemingly that many people have felt that they could get rid of it, but those ideas are still there and they will be useful for many occasions. The point is that that we be conscious when we use them. In other words if I want to have my way now, and the way to do it is to do a little complaining let's complain consciously because if we do it consciously you know exactly what we are doing and you don't get yourself all involved with it, it is rather a game. sometimes it is the only way you can get things going is to do a little complaining. It is not usually the method of choice, but there is rare occasions when it works very adequately. The next one is it is important to stick up for my rights. I haven't found an occasion for it in a long time, but I don't know it may be, at least I still know about the principle and I can use it if ever that should occur. The one on pleasing people, we may use once in a while too, sometimes it's very useful, but I'm not doing it because I feel a compulsion to do it, I do it because it is conscious because it works better for me that way. Sometimes it works pretty good don't it? did you ever try it?
The other one is believe and do what I am told by my authorities. When we're driving down the highway it's a pretty good idea to use it. Sometimes otherwise you can kind of kid them that you're going along and it keeps things a lot quieter and more subtle. The other one says' I ought to be different ' of course who knows, it ususally doesn't work that way but if we can consciously know that it is there and the one with the blaming we can also be conscious. Now somewheres along the way this is called the subconscious and it's been called in certain literature the Black Sun. The Black man that's in everybody. We also have the awareness which is the one that is conscious of what's going on. Which is the one that we use so seldom until after the fact you know, uh we gonna wake up after a while and say,'Oh yeah, I see what I did' but that doesn't do any good much. It is whether we use it at the moment or not. And if I am conscious and want to use one of these,that's fine. If I want to gain pleasure and escape pain that's fine. On a physical level you'd better believe I do. But not at all costs. Because sometimes the way of getting rid of a pain temporarily is more expensive than the others. So you can figure out the cost do you want to go that way or not. Do you want some attention? We'd starve to death if we didn't get some attention. So we want to get it but use conscious means to get it. We want to have some approval, most of us like it pretty well, do we ever use conscious means to get it, or do we feel entitled to it, you know, you want some approval well you proceed to get it wherever you like.
So whether we want feel important, or the power control certain situations we want to be in..
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