Workshop - Magic Talk 2 - Part 3 of 3
by
Dr. Bob Gibson
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Magic Talk 2 – CD 3 of 3
...and then you could proceed to do it. So when other people want something, I make up my mind that that will be the situation. Whether it is that they will be well tomorrow or whether they grow well from where they are or that they will have a certain job or that they have a certain situation or that they get rid of the present husband or get a new one or whatever the case may be, you simply make up your mind – that's the way it is. And I say to myself that's the way it is; that's the way it's gonna be. I make no further comments about it.
Now when you do this, you must have a state of really not makin' it important. It really doesn't matter to me whether she gets that husband gone and gets another one or whatever the case. It doesn't make any difference to me, or whatever other the situation is, that a person gets a certain job or that they get a certain offer or one of their proposals gets accepted or whatever. It really doesn't make any difference to me. I'd sooner it’d be that way as some other way. So first you have to have…
To make up the mind singly, the mind must be at ease.
Now when you're tryin' to do something for yourself especially to get something, rather than do something, usually it's difficult to get the mind at ease 'cause you make it important. And when you make anything important, you become very anxious over it because you're afraid it won't happen. Isn't that about right? So I would recommend that when you want to have something, you get somebody else to do it.
When you want to do somethin', do it yourself. And that you can do. If you wanna do it, why that's an easy mind. So the mind must be at ease and you must know, you must know that [writes it on the board] “X is.” Now that sometimes comes as a little shock to people, but X is the Life Principle. Now you can call it whatever name you want to, but you... call it Spirit. You can call it the God within. Have your own words, I don't care.
But you have to know beyond any shadow of a doubt
that Life really is and that Life is the ultimate power and that it so loves you
that it'll do anything you say is of total first value to you.
Don't have to be important; that's just what I want now and that's it. In other words, if you say catch it, it's there. You know, the hand went up – X did, and always does, the appropriate thing for the information it receives. So you must know that. X really is and always does [writes on board] the appropriate thing for the information it received. So I know that it's going to do that without a doubt. So I only give the information.
Now some people call it reporting or whatever. It's merely that I give X information that this is what is going to happen, this is what is going to be and it always does the appropriate thing for that information. I don't have to fiddle about it. I don't have to repeat it. It says it's not hard of hearing at all. It heard me the first time and so I don't have to repeat it at any time – simply once. Now, if I was to try to do it when I'm very, very busy, then the mind wouldn't be at ease. So if I get a call at 11 in the mornin' and I'm very busy and I don't get un-busy until 8 tonight, it will be after 8 before I say the word on it that that's the way it's gonna be because I can't do it while I'm busy talkin' to you or tellin' somebody else or phone’s ringing or I'm payin’ bills of all things or especially a tax bill. You just let that alone. But when you know, then when I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that X always does the appropriate thing for the information it receives, I know that it exists and that it so loves me it'll do whatever I say. And I say the word without any conflict, without any struggle, without any anxiety, without any “I sure hope it works this time,” because I know it's gonna work. It never has failed yet. And it will not because it always does the appropriate thing for the information it received. Then whatever you say happens....period! Now you may not know how it happens. I never know that because I've seen it happen in many unusual ways; but it always happens. Without any doubt, it always happens. Now it may not…
I don't plan how it's to do it – that's Its department.
I figure that my job is to say "what" and that X takes care of the "how.”
So Bob handles "what"- X handles "how".
So I'm not interested in the how.
I could care less.
But it always happens then and so people say that must be magical power. It really isn't magical power, it's the same power we use ever' day when you pick up a glass of water to get a drink – because you saw the glass of water, you said I wanna drink and the hand went up and you didn't know how to do. You caught a piece of chalk this mornin' - you haven't the foggiest how your hand went to get it, is that right John?
(Right.)
You don't know. It took care of the how. You reported that a piece of chalk’s comin' at me and X grabbed it. Right? And you didn't know how you did it ‘cause you don't even know how to move one muscle much less all of 'em. And there's a slew of 'em went there in very coordinating order. Now that's something we use every day. It's like I said this mornin' that you are not given the new purpose or to think about even ___ you're gonna the same old one. Now havin' what's called magical power is simply using what you use all the time except you have accepted that you can catch a piece of chalk in mid-air or that you can drink a glass of water or that you can pick up a fork and shove some steak down your throat; but you haven't accepted that everything you say is true.
Well, what's the difference between one thing you say and another? X finds no more difficulty in the 280 days turnin' out a completed baby than it has growin' your fingernail out a quarter of an inch. And do you know how to grow a fingernail? Does it all the time, doesn't it. You know how to grow a fingernail? Does it all the time. You know how to walk? Nobody here knows how to walk. I don't know how to stand up. I'm standin', but that's all I'm doin' is experiencing it; but I gave the information that I wanted to stand. So X always does the appropriate thing. So this bunch of loose-jointed things that should fall down is standin' up.
It's suspended from the head down just far enough to reach the ground; and the head always pulls the rest of it up if you will notice. Try to stand up and see if you do it with your feet or your head. Your head pulls it up there. So now that is considered magic. And there's been people through the ages that were considered to be magicians.
Now all those people were, were people like you and me that could make up their mind, they'd gotten rid of their double head. They were single-headed, only had one mind and they could make up their mind to what they wanted to. Anybody could if you're not double-minded, but if you're double-minded one of those little things will jump up and say, “But you don't know how to do that.” Huh? And so you can't do it. So if a kid is sick and you say the kid'll be all right. “Naw, naw, I don't know, I'm just hopin’ it will 'cause I don't know how to make a kid well.” Neither does anybody else; but X does. So it happens very rapidly. [snaps his fingers] Like that.
So this is the way that all the unusual things happen. Now in the Scripture books it says a double-minded man need expect nothin' from the Lord; and they called X the Lord in that case and the double-minded person was this double-headed individual we talked about this mornin'. They said, “Well I want to, but I don't know how.” You see, when you said that 'but', that canceled what you said before. Did you ever notice that? I sure like you, but I don't like the way you part your hair. That means I don't like you...period. Okay? This goes on all the time that somebody tells me somethin' and they qualify it with 'but.’
And you know they all say the appropriate thing for the first line. I just love you, but I wish you would cut your damn hair so it wasn't stringin' all over the place. Okay? Huh? And maybe you'd dress up and wear a three-piece suit. There is one group of people around the country now that all the people go that all the men wear three-piece suits, shirts, ties and shoes, John – even socks; they get 'em all on. (laughter) But.... course they charge you five thou to go learn how to do that, you see, and I'm not chargin’ that much by 100% less, so I'm not gonna tell you what to wear.
But you see that all these things that you can do anything if first you can decide what it is you want to do or what it is you want somebody else to have. Now don't try for havin' for yourself. You will make yourself anxious and then you'll say it didn't work. But anything you wanna do, you can make up your mind to do it and you'll find yourself doin' it real quick. Of course the hard part is findin' somethin' I wanna do, isn't it, Joann.
(Yes.)
I don't have any remedies for that, okay. Just sit around until somethin' grabs you - somethin' tears you up inside, it really grabs you. And then go do it, okay? Now what you want to have is no doubt very easy for you to figure out. I figured out I want everything and, you know believe it or not, I have everything. I decided instead of having this a little bit or that a little bit and this a little bit, I said I just want everything. So I have it all... no bother. I have everything that a human could want... truthfully. I even have a desk on the way. So all of this happens and this is what you call magic. Now would you like to be a magician, Robin?
(No.)
Okay, then don't bother with it. Huh?
(__)
Okay, then it's easy and simple to do. If all you want to do. Would you like to be a magician?
(Yes.)
Do you see how it works?
(Yes.)
[A simple definition of Magic:]
It's the ability to make up your mind singly. You can't be double-minded and say "yes,
but" about things. I want this... but.
You know I have a very good friend says he wants to have a good business... but he doesn't want to be tied down. Now what does he really want? To not be tied down, that's what he's not. And he don't have a good business. He canceled that when you put the 'but' on it. So when you come up and say I want a good business. Well fine, if you're gonna have a good business, you want to work at the good business. I don't know that it ties me; but I sure gotta be there. Most of the businesses we've been in is restaurants and they're like havin' a jealous mistress – they want you there all the time. Don't ever go home and see the old lady. You gotta stay there ever' night. You know, it's busy. So as far as I can see, if I want a business, I want the business period. I don't put any qualifications on it. If I like you, I like you period. I don't put any qualifications on it. So that's just bein' somewhat single-minded.
Now most of us are told that we're loved. You know, somebody comes along and tells you he loves you. But, now if you do a whole bunch of things you better get lost ‘cause you're in trouble. So that love is highly conditional, usually. I'll love you if you always do everything I want you to, when I want you to and in the way I want you to. Otherwise, I'll be ticked off. So that's being double-minded.
Now if you're truly single-minded which says this is what I want to do, and I'm gonna do it or if you say that's what you want to have. I met a few guys that are very young men who are multi-millionaires, but they know what they wanted to do – make a lot of money. And they don't have anything else, but they got a lot of money. There's no doubt about that, they got the millions because that's what they were going to do. They go out and make money. That's what you want to do, you can do it. Now if you say I wanna make a lot of money but I don't want to have to work very much. Forget it! You know, it's not gonna work somewheres in there. You gotta put out a little bit to get some back unless you… even if you’re a bank, you gotta plan it and you gotta get all this systems set up and you gotta get the get-a-way goin’. You just gotta do it, hmm?
(I guess.)
So then you initiate whatever it is you say you want to do.
You originate the first action.
If you want to stand up, you gotta raise your head up a little bit. I’ve worked with a lot of people who sit in wheel chairs and said they wanted to get up and walk. And they'll stand there, lean back sittin' and lean back in the wheel chair and try to lift their bottom off the table. You can't do that. You can't stand up from where you are now, Howard. Joann, you can't stand up from where you are now, so you gotta initiate by gettin' your feet under you first. Then it'll go up. But if you don't initiate, you'll just sit there. Is that right? Now if you can see clearly what it is you want to do, X always does it. So I see kind of clearly what I want. I don't know, it’s no great artistic stuff, but you know reasonably clearly what I wanna do and I do the first thing that I could see to do and X does all the rest of it. I initiate ready to go. I believe that is called motivation. Is that correct, Bill? Is that the word? To do the first step is to lean towards the first step, is called motivation, isn't it?
(Sure.)
So there’s many, many courses bein' taught how to motivate people. You know, you had dangled various and sundry kinds of carrots in front of 'em. That's supposed to motivate 'em. You study motivation? And what's the thing that motivates?
(Money.)
Money. How 'bout titles?
(Oh, titles helps.)
Titles helps a lot.
(Diamonds…)
Trips to Mexico.
(Yeah, Acapulco.)
Acapulco. Then you get there and you get your name on the top line up there that said....
(Big silver trophies.)
...silver trophies and all those good things which gets you to do only one thing – initiate the first step, is that right? And then you become a magician. Maybe you never thought of it but if you decided to sell the most widgets of the company in a given area, what do you do? You first make up your mind you're gonna do it and then you motivate enough to do the first step. Like the great Chinese book says: the longest journey in the world starts with the first step. And if you don't take the first step none of the rest of 'em will ever happen. So you can be a magician. Now sometimes that's a better word than saying you are a banker, lawyer, negotiator, problem solver or engineer or what-have-you... maybe it'd sound better to say you’re a magician, Howard. So how 'bout tellin' folks when your resume, when you're gonna get a job - your only skill is a magician. I think that’s the only item you'd have to put on; most everybody will hire you then. (laughter) That right?
If you went down and handed somebody, they said what's your qualification, you say I’m a magician – anything I say happens. Huh? (laughter) They'd hire you, wouldn't they? Right. You can get a job anywhere, anyway. You all heard about the girl that said she was the local witch? There was a guy drivin’ down the road one day and he passed a beautiful girl. So he stopped and asked her if she'd like to ride. She said, “Naw you don't wanna take me anywheres". He said, "Well why?" She said, "I'm a magic girl." And he said, "Well, what's your specialty”. She said, "I turn things into other things.” And he said, "Well, I don't believe in all that stuff, just get in.” So she got in the car and drove down the road in his new Cadillac convertible; in less than three blocks she turned it into a motel. (laughter) So you see if you're really decided that you're a magician, there's really no stunts to it at all.
So now, many people have asked me what I mean by saying that you report a certain thing. I make a report that this is what it is. X always does the appropriate thing for the information reported to it or the information it receives. Now it will not work on double-minded "yes, but" deals. If you say I wanna have a good business, but I don't want to have to stay in one place and work at it, it says, “Well, make up your friggin' mind and then I'll do it; but in the meantime shut up,” 'cause it totally ignores you. Just like I recommend that people ignore not-I's, because that's what's talkin' to it and X puts no kick on the not-I. So if one's sayin' do it and one says don't do it, X doesn't pay any attention to it. It hasn't received any information yet. It just heard noise. And it doesn't function on that. It only functions when it is singly. Now many of the things we do everyday is purely single. You get up and light a cigarette, get your coffee, you do this, you do that, you wash the dishes, you go to work of a mornin', you start the car – whatever, all of that is single. You do that all right.
Now we've been doin' it all these years, why limit it to only the things that people gave you permission or gave you an order to do singly? You know, mama told you eat your breakfast. Mama told you take your bath. Mama told you brush your teeth and mama told you, you get on the school bus or walk to school or whatever the case may be and you did all those. Easy enough, huh? But when the least little thing that somebody hasn't given you permission to do or hasn't told you to do, then what's the cry? “I wanna do that, but I don't know how!” I don't know how to do anything. Neither does anybody else.
So we don't know “how.”
But surely we can be single-minded enough to say: That's what I want to do.
That right? You could do that, couldn't you?
So you can be a magician then.
Can you do that, Sandy? You can be a magician. Now you know that's a pretty good occupation. You could sit around the house, people come to you, they call you from all over.
Now, I recently decided that I was gonna start sendin' out bills. You see, I'm not legally anything in this world. I'm not a doctor anymore. I don't have a license anymore. I don't have any certificates to do anything. I used to, but I got smart one day and sent 'em all in. I don't want this stuff anymore. So now I'm gonna start sendin' out bills for magical services. (laughter) Now, I think that'll be legal because nobody has passed a law yet that says I can't be a magician. So I'm gonna kinda judge accordin' to the size of the job. You know?
I had one the other day I thought was really super duper. Some nice lady called up and decided that she wanted an ex-husband back. She'd divorced him two or three times and took half of the house and the money and ever'thing; but she blowed and she was broke so she decided she wanted him back. She hadn't had any replacements otherwise. So I said, well, find him you can have him. I know him too and it really don't matter where he is. So she called back in about an hour and said, "Well I called him and he said he was gonna get married July the first to some woman - they've already bought a house and got it furnished and they're both livin' there”. I said I said you'd have him – forget it. So I said, you call him and invite him up to see you? She said yes, I called him and invited to see him, and he is all in a quandary 'cause he'd agreed to get married to this other woman July 1st - this was June 27th. That don't give you much time -you gotta get with it, you know. So I insisted that it was all right. She's tellin' me it couldn't possibly work and I said you call him and tell him come see you. So she called him and he agreed to come see her.
Then one of the children… they're all grown, about 25-26, they called up and give her a fit for even mentionin' it because they just love this new woman that he was gonna get married to and it was all set up in the house. But anyway he came to see her. And she told me it couldn't possibly work because this woman wouldn't leave… that he had already agreed to. So he agreed then to go see a church official. You know about those people. I’d go ask the lawyer or the doctor or the church official before they can do anything. So she knew that would blow it to go see the church official, but I said "Shut up and be quiet, you got him.” So she went to see the church official; I did not hear the report on that. But at any rate, the woman that was livin' in the house got ticked off, threw him out, he went to a motel, called her up and told her how lonely it was and they're together today. (laughter) And now I had to do that before July 1 - see when the marriage was comin' up. Now that's what you say – just made up your mind. Now, I have nothin' against either one of 'em. I think they deserve each other, you know. I could care less who lives with who, you know – it don't make any difference to me – but I thought it was kinda funny.
So when double-headed people walkin' around, you can do anything to 'em, you know. Make up your mind and they'll go pfft! right off ’cause nobody's in charge. So if you see somethin' layin' around that nobody's usin’… say you saw a hundred dollar bill layin’ on the street, Corita, wouldn't you pick it up and use it?
(Yes.)
Yeah, I would, too. And if I see a perfectly good human being layin' around with nobody in charge, I'll pick it up and use it sometime. Why not? Nobody else is goin' to. Okay, let's have questions, comments and discussions now. You got... yes –
(______)
I didn't hear you. Repeat it please.
(I said… you could want something for someone else to have, was that a good example?)
Yeah, that was one of 'em. I don't care what they have. That was a very specific example. If she'd a said she wanted a new Cadillac, that could have been just as easy. What's the difference? But that's something, she wanted a certain situation to exist. That's something she wanted to have, not something she wanted to do. Good Lord, nothin' for her to do but sit there and have it happen. Yes, dear?
(__ and they don't ___)
With the greatest of ease, but I can't want two different things opposing at the same time. I can't wish for you...make up my mind for you to have a good business but don't ever have to be bothered. I can't do that because that that's not-I talkin’. X ignores not-I's. That's when you have two opposing things at the same time, you know. I tell people frequently, you can't stand up and sit down at the same time. That seems to me a fair example of it. But if you make up your mind to stand up, you can stand up. Make up your mind to sit down, you can sit down. If you make up your mind to walk, you can walk. You make up your mind to stand still, you can stand still. But you can't do both at the same time – that happens to be what everbody's tryin' to do. That's what conflict is, Miss Sally. Okay? Yes, dear.
(What is the difference between the example you just gave and the psychology of positive thinking?)
Well, positive thinking is thinkin' about it and thinkin' if you're thinkin' positive. Makin’ up your mind is an act. It probably is positive act. But thinkin'...I know people who think positive all the time but they don't ever motivate into doin' anything. And they wouldn't be thinkin' positively if they really knew it was gonna happen. Is that right? So positive thinkin' is basically an exercise in trying to get yourself to believe somethin' you don't believe. Is that correct? You see, I'm not standin' around here sayin' I don't have a headache, I don't have a headache… I really don't have a headache. I wouldn't be sayin’ that unless I had a headache. (laughter) Listen, I knew it was a damn lie or I wouldn't be sayin' it. Is that right?
(Yes.)
Okay. Yes?
(You said _____________)
Yeah. Huh?
(___attitude what you want.)
Well, I don't ask anybody ‘cause I already have everything. But ask somebody that you think at least can make up their mind, you know. Don't ask some double-minded person. Forget it. They'll say I don't know how. So if you know somebody that can singly make up their mind – any of 'em will do. Anybody can make up their mind. Okay? Doesn't matter what their name is or where they are, just so they can singly make up their mind, okay? I don't really have a list of the names and addresses, Miss Laura. I don't think the list would be extremely long. Okay. [chuckles] Do you?
(Very short.)
Short line, okay. Okay, the next question, please. Those were good ones. Let's keep 'em goin'. What we're here for is to discuss, not for me to lecture. I make a very poor lecturer. What is it, Bonnie B.?
(Well, I'm just wondering if - how do you know - is it from experience that you know?)
Well, how do you know you have on a pair of white shoes?
(I just see them.)
You see them. That's the way I do, I see it. I see that you wouldn't be walkin' around unless there was somethin' called Life in you; otherwise, we have a corpse. And everybody gets very sad and lonely lookin' and says here lies the remains. I don't care about botherin' with those; I'd rather talk to you. There's somebody home. I can see them lookin' out through the little eyeball windows. And if there's nobody home, I don't bother to talk to them, okay? So I know that, okay? And I know it like you know that you have on white shoes. I see it. How else better is there to know somethin' unless you see it, okay. It's like how do I know that little bit there next to you is a very beautiful lady. I can see it. I don't have to ask somebody, well do you think Julie is pretty? I don't have to ask anybody. I can see for myself, okay? Okay, next one. Jim?
(___)
Well, expecting is wishing and hoping and prayin'. And makin' up your mind is forgettin' all that jazz and doin' it. Okay? You see, you expect based upon what you are entitled to. We talked this mornin' that everybody feels they're entitled to be non-disturbed, so they expect it. And then they're very frequently disappointed and then they feel hurt and then they look for blame and they usually find it. And then they're angry or guilty or fearful or insecure. And then that requires adaptation. That stresses the body up. And then they expect that it'll go away because they went to see the doctor - and they didn't know that wasn't the reason to go see a doctor. Okay? You don't go to the doctor to get well, do you? If you do, you get disappointed. She's got a question. I'll be right back, Lana. No, you was just stretchin'. Okay, Lana?
(I don't know what I ___)
You just know what you want. Do you know that? I don't know what should be. I don't know what oughta be. I don't know whether this folks that got together and blowed the thing. I don't know whether that was what ought to be or should be. It's just what she said she wanted…. and who cares. Go ahead.
(Well, going further, like in the case of my daughter, I don't know what she needs, what I need to do that.)
But you know what you want.
(What I want? How can I do that?)
Because you're a mama.
(Well that's true!)
Okay, well then I only ask you what you wanted. I didn't ask her what she wanted. I know what she wants. (laughter) I know what she wants today, maybe. It may already be over with. I started work on it last night. But I knew what she wanted when she called you, okay? But I don't care whether she gets it or not. I just asked you what you wanted. You were the one that was talkin' about it. She didn't tell me anything.
(I knew what I wanted for her.)
You know what you wanted for her, okay? Fine, that’s what’ll happen, okay? Who cares whether she likes it or not. (laughter) She didn't ask about it, she just told you, huh?
(If reporting is not important, –)
It has to be non-important to you or you are only reporting anxiety and X responds to anxiety. So when you're reporting what you want to do, there is really nothin' to get anxious about. When it's something you want to have that you don't believe you can have, then you'd be anxious wouldn't you, Corita?
(Right.)
Okay, that you don't bother with. Call somebody else.
(Call somebody else.)
Right. Somebody that you know can make up their mind, call them and say I want it… and then you go away and forget it.
(Can we make out a list and ______? )
Can you what?
(I said we can make out a list and then we can call them.)
Yeah, well I'll send you a list of 'em. That's a very expensive list, I'll guarantee you. Just to know that information would be where the magicians hide out would be a very expensive list. You know people that pay a whole lot for a name to mail a mail order letter to you. Think what you would get for a list that lists all the magicians you could call. Probably worth several bucks a name ___. You know about $25 thou a name or somethin' like that. Why stop there.
(Why stop there.)
Why stop there. Good gracious; you know, go a little further. Okay, the next question. Keep 'em up. Yes, Nancy.
(I don't know how to articulate this –)
I knew you wouldn't know how to do it, but just articulate it anyway.
(I still have a hard time dealing with morality in this. I mean, isn't there a line?)
Oh yes, there's jillions of 'em accordin' to which group you grew up 'cause you see what morality means is accordin' to the mores of whatever community you're around. The mores of the communities are quite different than the mores of the community was a few years ago. Hmm?
(Now we are just a function of X and we really know that and...)
You're an Awareness Function of X, not a function, honey.
(It's really a line, isn’t it?)
Well, I'm sure there is because it's accordin' to who you want to please or not please. Now I think I said I wanted to be what to me was a good guest. So if I'm in somebody's house that doesn't smoke cigarettes and they don't have ashtrays in their house, I don't smoke cigarettes there. I go outside.
(___)
Hmm? I don't stay any longer, I take frequent trips outside, but I will not smoke in their house. Now if I'm around somebody that never drinks coffee, I won't drink coffee in their house or even ask for it. But I will make frequent trips down to the coffee shop, okay? And if I'm around someplace that thinks you should always be dressed up with a three-piece suit and a tie and all this stuff, I'll wear it. You know.
(Isn't that pleasing them?)
I don't know whether it pleases them or not, I'm doin' it because to me that is what a good guest does. If it pleases 'em – wonderful; if it don't please 'em, suits me. I don't care. That's not why I'm doin' it. But you see, what we call morality is a man-made game. And so when a bunch of people set up one thing that’s moral and another bunch set up somethin' else that's moral and somebody else sets up something else that's moral… I don't know what's moral. I know many of the different rules of morality for different communities because I float around to different communities. Okay? So when I'm in a certain community, I try to do it.
I think that country folks had one for that. When you're in Rome, do as the Romans do. When you're in Russia, do as the Russians do. When you're in Poland, do like a Polack. So you don't have to wonder because you don't offend people when you go by their mores. The folks across the river call it bein' simpatica. Simpatica says you respect my mores and I don't have to consider yours, you know. They don't have to bother with mine, but I consider theirs, you know. So that's what morals are about. So if you grew up in a certain place, then you had a certain set of morals laid out for you, which you didn't wanna keep, but you did by will power, is that right? But it wasn't 'cause you wanted to, Nancy. It was a form of conflict for you, wasn't it? Right? Yup. Still is.
I dumped all of 'em. I'm amoral. I don't have any. I'm not immoral and I'm not moral, I'm just amoral. I don't have any, 'cause I float around so many different places and with so many different sets of mores, I can't afford to have one of my own. I just simply can't afford to have one of my own. I just play with their rules wherever you are. You know if you're gonna play a certain game, you play according to the rules or don't bother to play the game. Is that right? So I just don't have any for myself. I'm certainly happy to use anybody's. One set looks as good or as obnoxious as the other. Is that right, hon? One set of 'em is as good as another. I don't care. They're all fine. The rest is immaterial. Okay next question, comment. Okay, let's take a 15 minute break and we'll start again on the hour.
[after break]
…Corita here. That goin’?
(You have to do this thing… yeah, like that.) [working with recording equipment]
Like so, there it is. All go.
Okay, we'll try to discuss somethin' else for a minute to fill up the time. Long as we got it all done the first time. Now we're killin' time. So we'll just kill a little. Jim asked about expectation a little while ago, so I would like to attempt to clarify, if I can. [writes it on the board, spelling it outloud] E-X-P-E-C-T-A-T-I-O-N. Now you can't do anything without havin' an expectation. You would never do anything unless you expected somethin' to happen. I wouldn't go to work unless I expected somebody to come in. Otherwise, I got a day off. I wouldn't put a key in a slot and turn it unless I expected it to unlock or do whatever it's supposed to do when you put the key in there. Would you? Never put it in there. I wouldn't have come here today unless I expected there'd been some people here. Now there would be expectation based on fact – reasonable expectation. Knowin' facts are something that has a high degree of probability. Now in that, you are seldom if ever disappointed.
But now we base a lot of our expectation on an ideal. Now an ideal is an illusion. Another word for an ideal is illusion. It just is a picture in the mind. If you look it up in the dictionary, it says the ideal: “a picture in the mind.” And if you look up picture in the mind it says it's an illusion.
So the struggle towards illusion is the disintegrating factor.
Now the biggest illusion that most everyone has is that you are entitled to be non-disturbed without usin' any conscious intentional effort on your part. And when you do that, you're goin' to be frequently, if not very more often, disappointed. Now this is what gets people in a turmoil. It's not basing an expectation on a fact – that's the way things work. But when you base it on an ideal, then you're going to be disappointed. If you believe that you will get through this world – no matter how beautiful you are, how talented you are, how high your IQ is – that you're gonna get through this world without a little disappointment here and there when you are expectin' that you are entitled to be non-disturbed, that's an illusion.
So when you're disappointed, the next thing you do very quickly, before you have time to look at it, you feel hurt. Now when you feel hurt you look for blame, or you could say “cause” – look for what to blame. That's where we got all this blamin' bit we were talkin' about this morning – look what’s to blame. And sure enough, I find out it was you, then I'm angry. And if I find out it was me once in a while, I'll feel guilty. Now, of course, some of us are angry at ourselves and so we are always findin' we were to fault and so then we are to blame. Is that right? And then I feel very guilty and isn't that a glorious feeling to have all day. It's a nicey one, huh?
And then when we've been around this and we try to find that… we can't find what to blame it on, then we feel fear. Now you don't feel fear when a rattlesnakes spinnin' under your feet – that's startled. You don't feel fear when a tiger's chasin' you. That's a startle, then you do somethin'. You don't feel fear when a truck is about to hit you – you're startled and you usually do something. It gets your attention.
But when you can't find what to blame on when you’ve been disappointed, then you feel fearful. Now if you've been around this way a lot of times and you get so that you're always havin' these, then you feel insecure. Now these four feelings, and of course there's a million synonyms for them, is what one would call stress. Now you could have a jillion synonyms. You could have jealousy, which is a feeling of insecurity that your loved one cares for you. That's insecure, isn’t it? That's what jealousy is – insecure. And a fear you could call a whole bunch of other good words like excitement and a jillion other things: worry, concern, etc. And guilty you could call regret and all these nice words… and anger, of course, you could have righteous indignation. And you could have a whole bunch of other things to justify with, but they're all the same.
So these four, man was never designed to have.
[Anger, Guilt, Fear, Insecurity]
He was designed to have feelings, but not emotions.
Now when you have 'em, they're stressful and when you're stressed you have mobilized and unreleased energy. When you build up a whole bunch of energy to fight or run, you don't do anything, then you can stay in the state of stress. The body's in a state of chemical imbalance and neuromuscular tension for the time, place, and circumstance. It would be fine if literally what was happenin' and what you was imaginin' and fearful of and what you was angry with somebody was gonna kill you. You better have a good feeling of aggression, you'll get him, you know.
So there's a chemical imbalance and neuromuscular tension which then requires adaptation. You can't live with the body in chemical imbalance and neuromuscular tension, so X goes to work to adapt. And that adaptation can take either of two directions. And we said this mornin' the good people hold it in and don't ever express it and they die young. So they have a form of adaptation of unusual cellular activity - which is a change in function of some part of the body. Some aspect, some organ of the body doesn't function properly. That's unusual cellular activity, which always produces unusual sensation, which, of course, is what everybody complains about – the pain, the soreness, the stiffness, the achies, the miseries. Huh? And if you keep that up long enough, finally the tissue cells cannot continue indefinitely to do that, so there's tissue cell alteration or breakdown, which is then pathology.
So if you go to all the illnesses –
I'm not talkin' about injuries in the world – but all the illnesses,
it would be a change in function,
a change in sensation, and finally
a change in the tissue.
And that's all it is, regardless of what name you put on it.
‘Cause the name comes from where it is – not what it is.
A name comes from where it is, not what it is. So this would be the only way it would adapt physically. Now that'll finally destroy you. And that's why the good die young, you see. They didn't sound off with their anger – they held it inside. They felt guilty instead because they got angry. Did you ever feel guilty ‘cause you got a little ticked off? And full of fear ‘cause you don't know what to blame all these terrible symptoms on? It's some fantastic unknown disease that's attacked me out of the blue? And you're very insecure. So that goes.
Now the other way of adapting is unusual behavior. Now that'll get you in jail or get you in mental hospitals. It'll get you hated. It'll get you thrown out of the house and all sorts of goodies. And eventually, if you keep that up long enough, it'll go into this, you see. But the unusual behavior kinda means you go on some sort of a binge. You know, you go home and kick the wife and throw the cat out or vice versa… and a few things like that and that's workin' off the aggression. Now then you're called an old reprobate then. Or you go on a drinkin' binge or you go on a drug binge or some other kind of chasin’ binge. Some people go on killin' binges. So that's a way to work off your aggression and it's not a very popular one. However, it's probably less fatal than the other one is if you don't mind spendin' a lot of...........
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