From CALISTHENICS April 22 1980

CALISTHENICS  April 22 1980

if you do not feel a relation you cannot do what we are asking, because you have to have an active feature in you to start with-- not a concept. If you don't feel the relation, for instance, and you try to relate to that steady ongoing continuum, you will do it conceptually. Then the only thing you can do is build up images upon images -- more beautiful and more beautiful -- but still images. You have to start ,with a fact. This is one of the reasons that I have always said, especially for the beginners: if you cannot find a relation with us within a given time (one or two years) forget it, because a deeper work cannot be done-- the work is based on that relation. If we want a cooperation a cooperation means a relation.

I hope you can follow what I can say somewhere inside. It's not too difficult. The point is that starting from personal consciousness, you have  to face the shift of the center of gravity from the personal condition to another one that is a continuum. And this one is plain evident for those who know it and plain not evident for those who don't know it. That means a connection has to be established or reestablished. And it cannot be established on the basis of the dip. It is established on the basis of the continuum itself.

 ....Our task (and that our is a big OUR). is to activate that continuum in all of you, until consciousness begins to join in. Your part is adjusting the consciousness of each personality that means different types of personalities -your part of you as the continuum. You cannot sit in a chair and wait until we have done the work on you, and then everything will be fine. No, if you don't do your part it doesn't work. And as you know from experience, doing your part is not easy.

You go through quite a few crisis, disorientation, troubles, and whatever, until things begin to smooth out, because the base is more evident, more obvious.

Every once in a while, some of us feel that when the time is ripe it will fall on you. Until the time is ripe, you already have a lot of work to do. I remember, for instance, that when I was twenty-four I was told that nothing would reall y stir before I would be twenty-eight. I thought that would be a long, long time to wait -- for what! It was only afterward that I realized that until that time I had plenty of work to do.