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And so what if there's anger up there, let it be (couldn't hear all of the sentence)

But if I am trying to be non disturbed, there's an awful lot of people trying to step on my toes, is that right? If I'm not trying to be non-disturbed, then I really have nothing to be ticked off about. Did you ever notice that? Try that one (couldn't hear) Try it a few days next week. You have absolutely nothing that you're trying to prevent from being annoying to you. Now who annoys you? I think before anyone can get to me, I have to give that person the authority to annoy me, and I don't see any reason to give another person or anybody else the authority to annoy me. Ok? Is that right? I don't give the authority to annoy me, so have fun try, it don't bother me, I could less.

Ok, any other questions, comments here?  Yes Ma'm.

(can you tell me something about hypnosis or self hypnosis?)

Uh, it has no relation to what I'm talking about.

Most people have themselves hypnotized by all of authorities that they took everything an authority said is true, right? In other words, you have to make someone into an authority because we aren't unless we make them so. So you can give somebody the power to be an authority, then to that degree you're hypnotized by that person. We said long ago in our discussion, we don't believe anything, so I could check up and find out in the meantime, I could say well I don't know, I don't know. And you know, one great man told me onetime that usually the first and only statement of truth most people ever made is if they ever got around to saying I don't know. At least that's true. So to say I believe is only accepted because an authority said it. So you could say well I don't know, and if you're interested in that particular aspect of life the person's talking about, you could start running some experiments to find out how it works and you will know, is that right? Then you don't have to go into all that stuff.