Phoenix 1/71 tape 2 excerpt

Reality is okay just like it is.

From Albuquerque 1977

I am responsible for my response to circumstance, but I am not responsible for the circumstance.

From Gibson notes

Our birthright is to be responsible - to be conscious

Definitions

Alien
One who has disclaimed his agreements with the ideas, ideals, purposes and leaders of any institution.

Native
One who claims to agree with the ideals, ideals, purposes and leaders of an institution.

Society
A form of competition based upon rules and obligations to protect "us good guys" from "those bad guys"

Culture
Freely experiencing life without competition, superiority, or conflict.

Teaching idea #219

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

Headlines page 29

"Being" is a great gift, but unless it is the subject of self-knowing, "being' is all to often a curse of endless mental conflict, struggle and resistance. The anguish of this curse is relieved only temporarily by a sensory distraction.

Headlines page 29

A gift can be a curse until it is understood.

Headlines page 25

Those who are strong are not infants with grown up bodies having some technical education.

Teaching idea #98

There are no bad human beings, only conditioned mechanical, unconscious ones.