Purpose

Conscious

Make conscious and recognize that the reactive purpose simply cannot work for life on this planet.

Get at least somewhat of an understanding of valid basic questions:

What am I?
Where am I?
What's going on here?
What can I do?

On this basis, choose a purpose that will be the purpose that will be the prime frame of reference in every area of living- work, play, social, home, family, travel, etc., etc.

Example

Be what to me is a good guest - contribute to a pleasant, harmonious mood wherever I may be.

Being a peacemaker.

Living agape (love)

THEN self - discipline to practice this purpose until it is second nature.

Purpose

Reactive

The purpose of living is to achieve the non-disturbed state by:

Gaining                                            Escaping

Pleasure and comfort                      Pain
Attention &                                     Being ignored
Approval &                                     Disapproval
Appreciation                                    Inferiority
Importance

                        Methods

Goals
Buying
Demanding rights
Complaining
Distractions
Head Trips
Positive thinking
Attempts at Magic
Drugs
Dieting
Alcohol
Sex
Relgion
Control of others
Government
Pop Psychology classes
Setting up institutions
Tearing down institutions
Revolution
Suicide
Fantasy

All this is called human nature because acted on.

Teaching idea #222

When we see that everything is a game, we become a companion to the host.

Teaching idea #221

Everything we do is for the host.

Teaching idea # 220

When we are not trying to gain or escape anything, not struggling, the mind is quiet.

Teaching idea #219

Without agape we are dead. Agape allows us to pass from death to life.

THE NEW MAN --- NO CONFLICT

ALL IS GOOD AND TO MY ADVANTAGE

#7 I MAY NOT BE IMPORTANT BUT I AM USEFUL AND I AM A BLESSING.

WHAT AM I? A GUEST AT A PARTY
WHERE AM I? IN THE NOW WITH WHAT IS AS A FACT
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? PARTY GAMES (ILLUSIONS)
WHAT CAN I DO? ANY/ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WITH NO CONFLICT.

1. I KNOW WHAT I WANT SO I GO AND GET IT BEING GRATEFUL ALL  THE TIME.
2. I HAVE NO RIGHTS BUT I DO HAVE PRIVILEGES THAT I CAN ENHANCE-BUILD UP NOT TEAR DOWN.
3. CONSIDERATION OF SELF AND OTHERS.
4. CHECK OUT FOR SELF AND COOPERATE WITH RULES OF THE GAMES.
5. I AM DIFFERENT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
6. UNDERSTANDING/AGAPE FOR THEM AND ME. (I SEE THEY BELIEVE IN ILLUSIONS AND I AM SUBJECT TO THE SAME SUGGESTIONS).

NEW PURPOSE MY CHOICE.

(note, this is supposed to be in the "V" picture of man, sorry I can't duplicate the page with the equipment I have)

THE OLD MAN SIX DECISIONS

1. CRY AND COMPLAIN.
2. STICK UP FOR MY RIGHTS.
3. TRY TO PLEASE THEM.
4. BELIEVE AND DO AS MY AUTHORITIES TELL ME.
5. I OUGHT TO BE DIFFERENT.
6. BLAME - IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE DIFFERENT.

THE MASTER DECISION OR PRIMAL PURPOSE IS THE FOUR DUAL BASIC URGES

GAIN                                                            ESCAPE
COMFORT AND PLEASURE                     PAIN
ATTENTION                                                BEING IGNORED OR REJECTED
APPROVAL                                                  DISSAPROVAL
IMPORTANCE                                             INFERIORITY

CREATING A NEED (VERB-DECISION) TO FULFILL AN ILLUSION (PURPOSE OF NON DISTURBANCE)

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The old man----conflict

Everybody is creating a need (seen as real but is really false) to fufill an illusion. (not seen and not real but imagined to be real).
Is it necessary to create a need?
Can you see the illusion?

#7 PRIDE AND VANITY
I AM IMPORTANT BECAUSE:
1. I KNOW WHAT OUGHT TO BE, COULD BE AND SHOULD BE.
2. I THINK I KNOW WHAT I NEED AND THEY NEED.
3. I THINK I KNOW THE CAUSE AND WHAT'S TO BLAME - WHY AND HOW.
4. I THINK I KNOW THE FUTURE.

wisdom and understanding

Wisdom: aware of the source of ideas in the head.
Understanding: They're in other people's heads to.

Teaching idea #289

If we are asleep we see things as a threat. If we are conscious we see things as a challenge and watch X operate on it, which is every second of our existence.

Teaching idea #307

We can check up on how conditioned we are by observing if we are at peace.

Teaching idea #296

Disappointment leads to feeling. Then we look for blame, which leads to fear, guilt, anger, and insecurity. All of this is stress, which the body is not designed to handle.

Teaching idea #209

All judging comes from the first decision.

Headlines page 49

Can one make now a hell or a joyful moment?

Magic

Magic, the production of wonders, is the work done by a magician-that is, real magic, not the tricks of a sleight of hand artist. Most everyone has probably wished they were a magician and able to transform things and self by waving a wand.
It may come a surprise to one that the transformation of self, persons, things and circumstances can all be accomplished by anyone that cares to accept the magic wand and use it. Life is the ultimate Magician, the creator, the producer of wonders. Just a few moments cease taking everything for granted and watch the many wonders of life. Almost at once one will be filled with awe. You are an expression of Life, thus a magician. However, a magician that never practices his or her art may well not be a magician.
The magician's wand that transforms things is the ability to see things differently. If one sees self as a victim of circumstances and of past and other persons, one lives in a very bad place, a place of misery. If one sees self as an expression of life and surrounded with possibilities to express life by actualizing these possibilities, and surrounded by persons that would be transformed by a little contribution from self to their pleasant surroundings, one is filled with thanksgiving and joy. One has waved their magic wand and transformed self from a state of misery to that of a person filled with happiness (thanksgiving) and in the process spread a little light and joy to others. Not to shabby for starters.
The more one realizes that one is a magician (living) and has a magic wand (the ability to see differently) the more thankful is the state of being. There is no happiness without thankfulness. They are one and the same thing.
This is magic, this is transformation.
This is radiating life.
This is living.

Freedom

To experience freedom requires that one start with freedom rather than make freedom a goal to achieve. Most students to Life and higher consciousness start by letting a not-I known as the self-improver suggest that if one struggles hard enough and practices some techniques, or more than likely many techniques, that finally after many years one will gain freedom, that is, if one lives long enough. This approach is based on the idea that one gains freedom by being free from all things we have been taught to believe are bad. However, one never experiences freedom this way.
One does not become free. One starts by being free to. To start being free, one recognizes that one is conditioned and thus behaves as a conditioned person, which is to be in conflict. Conflict is experienced as anxiety. So-I am free to experience anxiety. When one is free to experience anxiety, anxiety disappears in a very short time, less than half an hour. The reason: now that you are free to experience the emotion of anxiety, a not-I can no longer bully you. The same is true for all the emotions-anger, guilt, fear and insecurity. We don't like these emotional states, as well as, by now knowing they are detrimental to our state of well-being.
We struggle against these states, or we resist them, or try to improve self to not have them. All the not-I's then get in the act. Some bully self to quit having them by improving self. Some justify them by saying that under the circumstances they are justified. Conflict is the state of being, year in and year out.
When one is free to experience these unpleasant states there is no condemnation or justification. Condemnation and justification are the work of the not-I's. Then the not-I's are put out of business. There is no longer anything for them to condemn or justify. Conflict,struggle and resistance come to an end naturally with the realization of this freedom. Trying to be free from is bondage. Being free to is seeing the truth, the truth that is truly freedom.

Teaching idea #214

Are we brave enough to dump all authorities?

Teaching idea #245

If I don't have to be safe, I have no fear.

Teaching idea #236

Feel, act, then think lead to total disintegration.

Subjective and objective consciousness

In the study of consciousness, it soon becomes apparent that there are two types of consciousness, each with several levels. The most common type of consciousness is subjective consciousness.
Subjective consciousness has several levels, all of which are emotional in nature. In subjective consciousness, all is internal considering. What do I want? I'm entitled to have everything just like I want it without any effort on my part. You must do exactly as I want you to do, or you are violating my rights. This is so prevalent that the present is often referred to as the "me generation".
The Me Generation has of course produced many conflicts, seen as protest against whatever is targeted as preventing 'me' as having 'my' rights. Many classes in being assertive. This type of consciousness of course justifies all blaming, anger, resentment, violence, escapism, and the feeling of being victimized.-anti-agape, in other words.
Objective consciousness also has many levels and is totally different in that there is no 'I' and 'you'. There is only description, seeing things as they are, with out any not-I being involved. There are no emotions (emotions being anger, fear, guilt and insecurity and their many synonyms. There may be many feelings in objective consciousness, but there are no emotions.
Possibly the easiest way to know about objective consciousness is to experience it. So here is a practice to make possible the experience. It's called 'telling the story' of a segment of the life of ------(your name).
In this practice one plays the role of a historian. Start with, say, one year ago, and tell the story in the historian's or novelist's style. For instance, Joseph met Pam at a meeting of Parents without Partners, and at once felt very attracted to her. Joseph managed to strike up a conversation and get to know her better but was hesitant to call her because he didn't want to get involved, etc.
Continue this story according to the facts as known. This is the beginning of actualizing the objective type of consciousness and the beginning of building a point of awareness.
Enjoy-keep it up- this is transformation.

Ideals

We have all been conditioned to hold ideals in high regard, thus we all believe that we know "what ought to be" for ourselves and others and all circumstances.
When we believe we know "what ought to be"- and all reality is "what is" in as much as "what is" is usually much different than our idea of "what ought to be" we feel frustrated and have the need to struggle and to resist what is.
One can drop the ideal by seeing that it is merely a fantasy and that we could not know what ought to be unless we knew the future, knew the outcome of every situation a week from now, a month from now, a year from now, and so on.
When we concentrate on the idea of the ideal for a little while, we can drop all belief in the ideal. We then find self in the present and quite capable of dealing with the present moment. We will find we are free to experience what is from moment to moment and to respond instead of react because things are not as we fancied they ought to be.
Being free to experience whatever comes our way today is to be free of conflict, struggle, and resistance is the only human problem.
One cannot believe in their ideals and be free to experience whatever arises in one's way today, then one is free of conflict, struggle, and resistance. Freedom is real being, now.

Real knowing

In recent letters, articles and talks, we have mentioned that higher states of feeling open the door to higher levels of consciousness, wherein there are flashes of intuition or insight- real knowing.
These statements have brought to us considerable call and letters. Most of these have been something to the effect that, "I know this but..." In this letter we will discuss information and learning. Information we can gather from many sources. Information is of great value when acted upon. We could say information plus action equals learning. It would appear that many believe that learning means accumulating information and committing it to memory. Such a belief is false and results in an obstruction to learning. Acting out a bit of information Leads to experiencing. Experiencing is learning.
Take some examples, and act out a role. First take a role one is more or less familiar with, say being a victim. Act as though you are a victim of circumstances, that nothing in your life will work until circumstances are different. Observe carefully. you will see how you feel and what kinds of thoughts race through to awareness. Now you are learning. Now act out a the role of a happy person. Again you will experience a totally different kind of feeling, and a very different type of thought will be present. In the same manner, act out the role of a discouraged person, then the role of a sad person, then the role of a blissful person. The contrast of the roles, feeling, and thoughts and ideas in the awareness are great learning tools.
What is written here is INFORMATION. Acting out the roles is acting on the information and results in LEARNING. More exercises in these roles will result in more learning. The more roles can be acted out and experienced, the more proficient you will be. Then more roles can be taken on as exercises that will lead to higher and higher states of consciousness. This is real learning.
However, past unconscious mechanical learning will imply to you that you already know his, and therefore there is no need to practice these exercises, or this stuff is for kids, or I'll try sometime when I have the time; how will such stuff do any good now that I'm broke, why try to kid myself.
Some way or other most individuals will justify not taking the opportunity to learn. Some will; they are the real students. They are on the way.

The purpose of the teaching

We are frequently asked, "What is the purpose of the teaching?" There are, of course many purposes but we will assume that for the moment that the question refers to the ultimate purpose. The ultimate purpose of the teaching is to prepare the student to be capable of being aware of the many levels of consciousness or inner feeling available to be able to choose and generate or bring into being any level of consciousness so desired, because many areas of service can only be rendered when in a given state of consciousness or being. Healing, for instance, cannot be practiced while in a state of consciousness called fear, nor in the state called anger, etc.
Many of the ideas of the teaching are to make the student aware of the usual states of consciousness by the use of tools such as the picture of man, the Tone scale, etc.
Much work on self knowing is necessary before the potential student can remove the obstructions to higher states of consciousness, thus the reason for schools. Only by being at least somewhat familiar with the possibility of many states of consciousness can the student begin the work of actualizing these states of consciousness in his or her own being. This is a stage wherein the potential student becomes a student.
Many people are present in a school setting who first must attain a desirable state of well-being before they could first be considered a potential student. Some have to learn first the most fundamental knowledge of how not to destroy the body, then how not to disintegrate the whole being. Being a potential student, much less being a student, requires to much energy energy for sick or disintegrating persons to be involved. So in a school situation many levels of work are going on at the same time. First, to make possible the transformation of sleeping, disintegrating persons into potential students, then the transformation of potential students into students, then students into beings who experience any level of consciousness required for the task at hand.

Self remembering

As many of you know, much of the day is spent on the telephone with people who call for information on their situation at the moment. It is interesting to note that the information people request is basically about something they have made important, and have become very anxious over, and sometimes very ill from the anxiety.
What has been made important frequently relates to the four dual basic urges and the master decision on the picture of man. A person has made it important that they receive more attention so that they cease being ignored in the least iota. Or that they have more approval and an absence of any disapproval. Or that they are appreciated whether they do anything to gain any or not; and of course more entertainment and less discomfort from making things important!
This week the greatest number of calls has been how to make somebody quit rejecting "me"This seems to be a very powerful motivator to do anything and everything wise, unwise, frantic, panicsville, which of course interferes in every facet of the person's life. What can we talk about? What are we making important and can we change anything? Or can I take charge of my inner feelings by taking charge of my actions?
So, essentially the work on the phone is to remind the caller of a fundamental idea of the Teaching that they already know but have totally forgotten. SELF REMEMBERING is the key to eliminating all these stressful situations. Remembering WHAT I AM, WHERE I AM, WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, and WHAT CAN I DO? I can also take charge of my inner state of being and contribute to a pleasant, harmonious mood wherever I am, which will result in "me" feeling serene and peaceful, or enthusiastic, as the case may be. Really nothing needs to be changed but-WAKE UP! Being awake means to be in a state of self-remembering.

Teaching idea # 370

Truth: seeing what is without justifying, condemning or trying to change it.

Teaching idea #367

The purpose of living is to live as one harmonious unit without any conflict.

Teaching idea

Everything that happens to us is a gift so we might evolve.

Teaching idea

Agape: able to see from another's viewpoint.

Teaching idea

If you want those around you to like you, you have to like yourself.

Teaching ideas

There is one person in the world you're going to always live with. That's you.

Life is the teacher excerpt

You see a person in a higher state of consciousness, gives everyone around them a good feeling just to be around them.

Life is the teacher excerpt

Happiness is the natural state of higher consciousness, misery is the natural state of lower consciousness.

Teaching idea #359

Only X knows how to do anything.

Teaching idea # 358

We love our problems because they give us a reason to feel sorry for ourselves.

Teaching idea # 349

Nothing is important. We only make it so.This is the basis of all disintegration.

Teaching idea # 346

Point of awareness can observe the conditioning, without identifying or trying to straighten it out. Only X knows what to do with the conditioning.

Teaching idea #17

The teaching material does not allow us to be less disturbed. But we will be less disturbed because we don't care anymore if we are. When we are free to be disturbed, we don't get all torn up about it.

Some upper levels of consciousness

Vital interest
Outward attention
Enthusiastic
A privileged, invited guest of the host
Considerate
Not a victim
Takes responsibilty for self
Value in life
Loves self because I am life and gives service out of thankfulness to X (holy spirit or life)

Infantile approach to life--- Blamers

Attributes of lower levels of consciousness:

There's only only one, but various levels of it:

Contentment                                    
self pity, sees self as victim
Infantile mechanical reacting-Asleep
Anger--gets people to straighten up and fly right
Contagious
Held resentment-Feels mistreated,blamer
Fear-Picture in head & gets self frightened about it
(Guilt)
Apathy-No value in anything. What's the use. Can't perform.

Living the spiritual life excerpt

Audience member says "They have the power"...
(Robert responds)
Do they? Do they?
Does anybody have any power over you except the guy carrying the gun? That, unless you give him the authority to have power over you? (audience member says no, not in that respect) 
Okay, so now let's say the lovely lady sittin by the side of you would dissaprove of you if you did so and so, would that be havin' power over you? (only if I want it) well, you just didn't make it important whether she approved or dissaproved you could just go on about your business, is that right? (audience guy says something like if she really doesn't want me to I won't do it) Right that's a good way to make her responsible instead of you. So you know, we are always running around here seeing who we can make responsible for me. Right? There isn't anyone out there who's responsible for my inner state, what I do or don't do, yes we do have officials who see that we don't do things, or get stopped if we do things that are harmful to other people, but they don't care as long as I keep my nose clean and don't bother anybody.

State of being

One has a state of being, (which is what everybody is concerned about--this is the persons state of being) and it's exactly the way it has to be for this moment. And, on the other side we would have environment, inner feeling, activity, and nutrition. Now all of these are available which we have considerable control over.

Notes from 1977

STATEMENTS

Most people spend their time defending their view of themselves. They are totally unconscious of it.
The only thing anyone can do is make statements whether written or spoken. This includes the 'Not I's'.

It is entirely my responsibility as to how I handle these statements from within and without.

I can see it has no value to my purpose, or
I can see that it has a value to my purpose.
I do not have to defend self from any statement.
I do not have to analyze it.
I do not have to interpret it.
I do not have to reject it.
I do not have to accept it.

The end result is that I have accepted certain statements as true or valid to me and this is what I live by. This is my Truth.

I do not have to sell it to anyone else. I do not have to convert anyone else. Above all, I know that it has absolutely nothing to do with what is ultimately true - if there is such a thing as ultimate truth.

For instance:

I have heard that "most people are stupid bastards", and I have heard that "all humans are Christ incarnate, thus everyone is Christ playing a role to see if I can recognize Him in that role."

I have no idea of determining the validity of either statement. However, at various times in my life, I have lived as though each statement were true for a given length of time - have accepted it as being true and have lived by it.

I much prefer the latter.

Notes from 1977

There is nothing to prove or defend.

Teaching idea # 28

We have it all: food, clothing, shelter, transportation, interesting things to do and interesting people to be around.

Teaching idea # 27

Goal: Struggling after a predetermined result. Very stressful. Aim: A direction to go.

Teaching idea # 26

We can't live by concepts (conditioning). We live by insights (what's going on inside).

Teaching idea # 25

Guilt---fear of being embarrassed.

Teaching idea # 24

If we let circumstances determine how we feel, we are not in charge of our inner state. When we are responsible we can feel anyway we choose to feel. We don't have to let the clouds determone how we feel. What (or who) keeps me from feeling good---right now?

Teaching idea # 23

What we really experience all day long is our inner state of being. Everything else we sense.

Teaching idea # 22

Life sets up all sorts of situations for us to be able to apply the teaching material so we can learn.

Teaching idea # 21

If we are looking for an ideal, it is impossible to make a choice or a decsion. If we are not looking for the ideal, it is easy.

Teaching idea #20

We cannot control circumstances or how other people treat us. We can choose our responses. This is freedom.

The new man---No conflict

1. I know what I want so I go and get it being grateful all the time.
2. I have no rights but I do have privileges that I can enhance-build up not tear down.
3. Consideration- of self and others.
4. Check out for self and cooperate with the rules of the games.
5. I am different, thank you very much.
6. Understanding/agape for them & me. (I see that they believe in illusions and I am subject to the same suggestions).
7. I may not be important but I can be useful and I am a blessing.
New purpose my choice
(this is supposed to go with the picture of man)

Tape 22 excerpt

Is there any accomplishment or is there only reporting, being aware, paying attention, and reporting  as to what is to X?
In other words, there are no successes, no failures. There is only reporting.

Rosewell

Now for a baby it was probably very accurate. I would say for Larry and Ann's little one to gain comfort and escape pain is very necessary. It's got to have some attention because it can't take care of itself. They can't very well ignore it and reject it and leave it sittin' out in the barnyard at this moment. And of course they give it a little approval, tell it how much they love it, because it don't believe it, and of course it is the most important person in the household? But in 2 years from now that's all gonna change, don't you forget it. And we've all past the 2 year mark by quite a bit. So then all of these suggestions, now constantly 'I' is looking for anything that helps it's survival. It accepts that as a suggestion. You can tell it anything that doesn't have to do with it's survival and it doesn't pay any attention to it. But 'I's' got it's ears out listening and flagging anything that helps it's survival. Right brother Joe? So it buys all these suggestions that are in here, that makes up the picture of man. In order to gain all the four dual basic urges, the urge to complain, stick up for my rights, and blame one way. The other is please everyone, believe and do as we are told by our authorities, and to be different at all times, go through a program of self improvement. Now when we see that all these ideas are false, they have nothing to do with my survival, with me existing, staying up here, then we can eliminate them and put no value on them, or disidentify pretty rapidly.

Roswell '75 part 1

...So while we're waitin' for everybody to get in, I'm very glad to be here, I'm very happy to see all the wonderful people I've seen so many times. So we'll wait just a second until everybody gets in. And we will be ready to start....(note; skipped part of tape)
We're going to talk today, basically on ideas. Now, ideas are basically what we all live by, whether we are aware of it or not. And we will try through the day to come up with what ideas are, which is the ones we talk with all of the time that you unknowingly use, and ones that we could use. Now we're going to first start with a little diagram for a little bitty bit. This is I with a line drawn under it. Real I. Now all it only has one purpose. And that purpose is survive. Now it has never made an idea. Now matter how many times you have say, 'my idea' it didn't make it, you just borrowed that one somewheres. And no matter how many times you have come up with an idea in the head and fallen in love with it, and wasted all your money and went broke, or what ever else happened to you, you did not originate that idea. Now there are two sources of ideas available to us, one is conditioning. And in the tapes and other things we call this 'not-I'. It is not 'I' with a line drawn under it, it is sometimes called 'I' with quotation marks around it. It is a false 'I'. Now it has all gobs of ideas, all of which purport how to tell us to survive......(interrupted by student coming in late) So the 'not I's', or "I" the false "I" has a bunch if ideas which it constantly suggests to I. Now I is very subject suggestion.  I with a real I  'cause it's lookin' for a ways and means to survive It's lookin' for tools you might say. Now the first tool we got of course was the four dual basic urges that which you're all familiar with that the purpose of living is to gain pleasure and escape pain, gain attention and avoid being ignored and rejected, and oh what terrors it is when we are rejected a little bit. And to gain approval and escape disapproval, and to gain a sense of importance, and escape a sense of inferiority and useless or unnecessary. Then it is suggested that is the whole purpose of living, the way to survive. And it tells us it is the only way to survive is to have pleasure and comfort, and escape pain on all levels, and if you never had any pain, you'd never survive very long. You'd pick up a hot skillet and would never know it until you smelled meat the fresh meat cookin'. You would eat somethin' that was poison, and you wouldn't get nauseated and upchuck, you would just die a little bit. If you come across some nice little lovely bacteria or some little micro organism that like to set up housekeeping and like to use our blood stream for their sewage disposal, there would be no adaptation to it, there would be no effort to through it off, they would destroy you. But thank goodness they go through an effort to destroy them, X, life does, and we feel pretty rigged, don't we? And certainly we don't want everybody's attention, it would smother me very quickly. Sometimes you need a little privacy and don't need so much attention. And certainly, I want to be ignored by a whole bunch of people, bill collectors, various and sundry other noxious agents that run through the world. And I don't care if I have approval of everybody because some people only approve of me if I get drunk, some people will only approve of me if I help them rob a bank. Some people will only approve of me if I go dirty, if I don't clean myself up at all. Other people only approve if I do things that I'm just totally disinterested in. And I don't want to be important, because if I'm important, everybody's gonna be shootin' at me. I like to be totally unnoticed, low profile, and go merrily on my way. So if we look at those, that was not a means for survival for a grown person.

Suggestion

Definition of suggestion: a threat or promise; anything presented with a threat or promise.
A human being is 100% subject to suggestion 100% of the the time, but is free to ignore it.

The four questions

What am I?
Where am I?
What's going on here?
What can I do?

Epistle

1. Whenever or however "I" make anything important, I am anxious.
2. Being anxious, I am either angry, feeling guilty, fearful, or feeling insecure. This is to be in a state of conflict, struggle, resistance, Stress.
3. Being anxious is to be struggling toward an illusion, the illusion of the ideal, what ought to have been-what ought to be now.
4. The struggle toward an illusion - an ideal, is the disintegrating factor.
5. All the not "I's do - is make things, events, what ifs, if only, had ofs, etc. important.
6. To see this, to experience making things important is to be free, really FREE!
7. Do not erase this from awareness for eternity plus one day.

Teaching idea

Suggestions are brambles that choke the seed.

Teaching idea

Depression is the same as self-pity or apathy.

Definitinitions-The nature of conflict,struggle, and resistance

Everything is perfect for here and now, or there would be no balance. The disintegrating factor.

Teaching idea

If we experience freely, we are peaceful. If we resist experiencing, we are in conflict.

Teaching idea

All we can do is report what we're sensing. That is being obedient to our nature. Our purpose is to serve Spirit by interpreting the senses. I am disobedient to my nature when I judge.

Teaching idea

I refuse to react to other people's reaction.

The four dual basic urges The primal purpose

The being will always do that which will bring about "it's" concept of  what is good. The primal (baby's) decision that the purpose of living is to be non disturbed, is experienced first on the physical level, then after a few months, also on the psychological level. Later it is experienced on the emotional level, and still later on the transcendental level.

Level                         Gain                                Escape

Physical                  Comfort and pleasure         Pain

Mental                    Attention                      Being ignored or rejected

Emotional               Approval                       Disapproval

Transcendental       Being needed,feeling important      Inferiority;
                               Appearance of being important       Insignificance

Teaching idea

Everyone has a purpose, either known or unknown. Once you have a purpose clearly defined, it operates automatically.

Teaching idea

As long as we claim (my, mind) anything or anybody we are identified with it.

Teaching ideas

Truth: Seeing what is without justifying, condemning or trying to change it.

From the place of language in the teaching

Trying: Looking for an end result
Doing: Action

Definition of Knowledge and wisdom

Knowledge is seeing what is moment by moment
Wisdom is seeing the value in something

The six decisions (GOES WITH PICTURE OF MAN)

1. It is important to have "my" way NOW and the way to get it is to COMPLAIN.
2.It is important to STICK UP FOR "MY" RIGHTS.
3.It is important to PLEASE OTHERS.
4.It is important to "BELIEVE AND DO AS I AM TOLD BY "MY" AUTHORITIES.
5.It is important that "I" BE DIFFERENT.
6.It is important that THEY, HE, SHE, IT AND YOU BE DIFFERENT.

The picture of man

From tape 16

Whenever anything is made important, the self becomes anxious.

Picture of "Dr.Bob" Robert Gibson

Headlines page 16

When one has the state of consciousness referred to as conflict, one is being intimidated by thought.

The two worlds

How the stage is set for conflict,struggle and resistance
We are in the man made world
A world of:
Machines
Ideas
Ideals
Standards
Where we play games composed of:
Players
Officials
Rules
Standards
Games such as:
Traffic
Business
School
Marriage
We are of the real world
A world of:
Real living beings, no two of which are alike, no two of which are in the same environment at the same time.
Therefore: A world where there can be no standards or opposites for living beings, only differences.
The great games- which set up Standards or opposites for living beings:
The Healing arts...................Normal vs. Abnormal
Theology...............................Good vs. Bad
Big Business........................Pretty vs Ugly
Power Policies.......................In vs Out

These standards are suggestions which set up ideals and thereby result in conflict,struggle and resistance.

Teaching ideas

Only as I, the observer, sees some idea of the self as an illusion, is it free of the tendency to identify with that idea.

Teaching ideas

Don't ever look for Truth. Look for illusions. When you have seen the illusion for what it is, you have seen the Truth of the matter. The Truth sets us free.

Teaching ideas

Prime misconception: That I can live on planet earth without being disturbed.

Teaching ideas page 1

Misery is when I'm trying to avoid discomfort.

Headlines page 20

Meek = absence of resentment, without resentment.
 Considerate = of another especially one which one formerly resented.
Meek + considerate = Love: Agape, understanding.

Headlines page 12

One not knowing self can accept little responsibility for his state. He feels he is a victim of powerful forces outside himself.

Headlines page 9

What seems to have the most survival value...forming a theory as to why the temperature is 20 degrees below zero F., or building a fire?

New Smyrna '92

All of us have choices to make and we can choose to feel miserable or we can choose to feel wonderful. Either way we're gonna die. We have a terrible condition, we were born. That took care of that.