"We are in a period of history, the likes of which mankind has never before had to face. World-wide hysterics. There is nothing remotely close to it in what we call recorded history. There are reports of a sunken continent of Atlantis way back when – a highly developed, scientific civilization which brought about its own destruction. We are again living in that kind of a mad self-destructive wave. " Anxitiy please.

"can we face the current situation? We’re on the edge of incredible change, coming at us fast. ...a great shift is taking place, that will ‘conclude’ in 2012 – a key date in the Mayan Calendar. Between now and 2012 there will be more change – now dig this one – more change than the world has experienced in the past 26,000 years!

Such an immense shift must be in CONSCIOUSNESS – not merely some super hi-tec space-toys, or even some awesome event of nature, or war. Worst Case Scenario.

"Again, pains of all sorts result from twisted vibrations within your organism, caused by the unbalanced and corrupted thought patterns and activities of countless generations of semi-conscious human beings, disconnected from Higher Centers. The cumulative results have now reached a 'NADIR' – the maximum possible for human beings to contain. It's now a case of madness, total, or the Truth that 'you not yet know'.

But, you can, now, know. That is what is so absolutely remarkable about this current piece of time.

What is that Truth? It's your Cosmic Connection. That may sound fancy, like a fantasy to some, but it really is a FACT. In fact, your only possible escape. Here we have the gist of all religious 'propaganda'. An issue, though, as real as real can be. Anxiety please

"The world that we are born into . . .. Each man, rich or poor, smart or stupid continues to be a victim of random sickness, accident, death, war and violence from each and every direction. He has devised artificial hearts and heart transplants in an effort to overcome this great disease / killer but is dying in droves from cancer. He manufactures bigger and more effective guns for his self protection but is subject to more physical violence than ever before in history and now with the ever present possibility of immediate and total destruction. Directory.

"You know, there’s so little spare energy, to look at other people, or even to WONDER how they deal with anything, really, other than when they get irritable. But there are people in this room, as well as others, that relate to the Work at times so seriously that you MIGHT wonder – exactly what does it mean to THEM? What is the Work? It’s just a word! You could ask Dina for instance, she would also say she is working and you can ask Nili, she would probably also say…you could ask Laurence, he would be working, and you can ask Jacky and he’s also working, not only working but teaching sometimes. And I could go on and on, of people that you know.

Now, are they doing the same thing you are doing? Does the word ’Work’ mean the same thing to each of them? God knows! Do you ever really think about it? I came across someone recently in K’lil that got more than a little irritated with me. He said, 'don’t you SEE I’m working?'

So, it’s a very interesting question, no? If you’re ’working’, what are you actually doing, why are you doing it, and what do you expect the result to be? What was said before, when I asked about Hanna? Knowledge? Okay, ’knowledge’. Then what’s this knowledge good for? Knowledge for what? Oh, you can say ’self knowledge’. Okay, self knowledge…I mean... you can juggle with a vocabulary very easily. What is the AIM, what is the purpose of the Work? What is the Work, other than your relationship to it? Did anyone ever think of that? The Work has its own aims. What would you say the aim of the Work is?
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The hope of the Work is to have a SURVIVABLE ’something’. Are you aware of that? Or is it for your pleasure and pride and significance in life? What do you want more, a soul that can survive, or to be ’respected’… by whomever... your boyfriend, your children, the banker, the neighbors. It’s not a small issue.

The issue of the Work is to allow the ’seed’, that YOU are, to grow, into a Survivable Being. Does that sound new to you? Can you think of anything that is more significant?
I’ll tell you something else. For a SERIOUS worker, any other person who is working is as important to them as themself. That’s the BOTTOM LINE of ’external considering’. And that’s the bottom line of this conversation. Talk with Three sisters

"Hanna is busy. She has her music, work with children and art as well. These are places where she can give something and get something. There is a hope in those things, right? There is hope in the family, there is hope in art, there is hope in music and there is hope in the children. Nothing NEW about that! That’s not ’New Meaning’. What has that got to do with the building of a Soul, other than maybe indirectly? What has that got to do with non-critical self-observation, with self-knowledge, now? What’s that got to do with non-identification, with self-remembering, now?

When you’re IDENTIFIED with something, you DON’T remember yourself. Your ’I’ is in what you’re identified with. It’s one thing to be AWARE - knowing what the mind, the emotions are doing, what the body is sensing, to be aware NON-CRITICALLY – and it’s quite another thing to be IDENTIFIED with it, calling it ’I’. Because, when you do that, YOU are not really present, not remembering yourSelf.

Everything is always changing, outside and inside. There is ONE THING in you that doesn’t change. That’s your CONSCIOUSNESS – where you can be established in Real I. Everything else passes on the screen of consciousness. It starts and it goes. And you live in the identification of those PICTURES, and get an as if ’identity’ in it. It’s not your REAL IDENTITY at the very Source – it’s not ’real’.

There is something extremely essential in what was just said. That which is real in you can SURVIVE THE DEATH OF THE BODY. There is something really worthwhile to DO, on top of this generally comic/tragic trip. At the very least, not to ’slip down’.
Well, you might come back for another try on this, or maybe some other planet, in case this one gets blown up, which is a very real possibility.

So, Hanna has her interests. Those kind of experiences need not steal one’s PRESENCE. If they DON’T steal your presence, that presence gets strengthened. And when they do steal your presence, it sucks you dry. You just paid with SOUL ENERGY, that you’re going to need the moment you die, which is sooner than you think. Now, what do you want to do before you go? Another kind of ’high’? You want another.…what? Talk with Three sisters

"The principles of Work are concerned with the building of a SOUL. Something that is already in you that can become strong enough to resist all the bullshit, the fear, the abuse, anything. To really come ALIVE within the HOLY TRIAD of non-critical self-observation, non-identification and Self-remembering. Those three things go together! They strengthen the REAL in a person at the expense of everything else. Until that becomes a reality, you are not worth shit to yourself or anyone else, regardless of what you think about your intelligence, your goodness, or your seriousness. Without that TRIAD you’re another bouncing ball with a self-image, changing all the time Talk with Three sisters

"I lived in a house where my mother always wanted to pull the window shades down at night. I said, ”Why?” She says, ”people might look in”. I was just a little boy. I said, ”what difference does it make?” Also, as a child, she said to me, ”look, you don’t have to repeat everything that you hear in the house.” That went in one ear and out the other. I didn’t know what she was talking about. We LIVE in secrets and lies!

Here is another little hint: LIVE YOUR LIFE LIKE EVERYTHING IS KNOWN. Everything IS known, one way or another. What a DRAIN of energy it takes to be secretive. Talk with Three sisters