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[Assistant] And you know, some things ended up being failures, so I didn't really talk about it, but there was something that came out of China, I think that was like a, uhm, a box that you could put over somebody's face and then stick your hands underneath the box so your face was above it, like plexiglass for protection and like, intubate for example.


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[Assistant] Originally published in 1949 by Goddard Publications.


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[Assistant] As a general disclaimer, the views and opinions expressed in this book belong to the author, and may not always reflect those of master key society or its affiliates.


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[Assistant] This recording is a production of Master Key Society for the purpose of research, study, and discussion. Chapter 1. Out of This World.


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[Assistant] Many persons, myself included, have observed events before they occurred.


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[Assistant] That is, before they occurred in this world of three dimensions.


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[Assistant] Since man can observe an event before it occurs in the three dimensions of space, life on earth must proceed according to plan.


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[Assistant] And this plan must exist elsewhere in another dimension and be slowly moving through our space.


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[Assistant] If the occurring events were not in this world when they were observed, then, to be perfectly logical, they must have been out of this world.


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[Assistant] Must be predetermined from the point of view of man awake in a three dimensional world. Thus the question arises, are we able to alter our future?


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[Assistant] It is determined by his attitudes rather than by his acts. The cornerstone on which all things are based is man's concept of himself.


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[Assistant] He acts as he does and has the experiences that he does, because his concept of himself is what it is, and for no other reason. Had he a different concept of self, he would act differently.


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[Assistant] A change of concept of self automatically alters his future, and a change in any term of his future series of experiences, reciprocally alters his concept of self.


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[Assistant] Which he regards as insignificant, produce effects that are considerable.


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[Assistant] Therefore, man should revise his estimate of an assumption and recognize its creative power. All changes take place in consciousness.


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[Assistant] The future, although prepared in every detail in advance, has several outcomes.


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[Assistant] At every moment of our lives we have before us the choice of which of several futures we will choose.


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[Assistant] There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by everyone, a natural focus and a spiritual focus. The ancient teachers called the one the carnal mind, the other the mind of Christ.


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[Assistant] We may differentiate them as ordinary waking consciousness governed by our senses and a controlled imagination governed by desire.


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[Assistant] We recognize these two distinct centers of thought in the statement, The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him.


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[Assistant] Neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned.


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[Assistant] The natural view confines reality to the moment called now. To the natural view, the past and future are purely imaginary.


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[Assistant] The spiritual view on the other hand sees the contents of time.


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[Assistant] What is mental and subjective to the natural man


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[Assistant] Is concrete and objective to the spiritual man.


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[Assistant] The habit of seeing only that which our senses permit renders us totally blind to what otherwise we could see.


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[Assistant] To cultivate the faculty of seeing the invisible we should often deliberately disentangle our minds from the evidence of the senses and focus our attention on an invisible state, mentally feeling it and sensing it


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[Assistant] Until it has all the distinctness of reality.


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[Assistant] We have but to concentrate on the state desired in order to see it.


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[Assistant] The habit of withdrawing attention from the region of sensation and concentrating it on the invisible develops our spiritual outlook and enables us to penetrate beyond the world of sense and to see that which is invisible.


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[Assistant] For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. Romans chapter 1 verse 20.


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[Assistant] This vision is completely independent of the natural faculties. Open it and quicken it.


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[Assistant] A little practice will convince us that we can by controlling our imagination


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[Assistant] Reshape our future in harmony with our desire. Desire is the main spring of action.


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[Assistant] We follow the desire which at the moment dominates our minds.


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[Assistant] Desires always have some personal gain in view. The greater the anticipated gain, the more intense is the desire.


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[Assistant] There is no absolutely unselfish desire. Where there is nothing to gain, there is no desire, and consequently no action.


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[Assistant] The spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire.


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[Assistant] The key to progress in life and to the fulfillment of dreams lies in ready obedience to its voice.


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[Assistant] And then living and acting on this conviction.


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[Assistant] As soon as man assumes the feeling of his wish fulfilled, his four-dimensional self finds ways for the attainment of this end, discovers methods for its realization.


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[Assistant] I know of no clearer definition of the means by which we realize our desires than to experience in imagination what we would experience in the flesh were we to achieve our goal. This experience of the end wills the means.


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[Assistant] With its larger outlook, the four-dimensional self then constructs the means necessary to realize the accepted end.


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[Assistant] The undisciplined mind finds it difficult to assume a state which is denied by the senses.


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[Assistant] Here is a technique that makes it easy to encounter events before they occur, to call things which are not seen as though they were.


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[Assistant] People have a habit of sliding the importance of simple things, but this simple formula for changing the future was discovered after years of searching and experimenting. The first step in changing the future is desire.


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[Assistant] That is, define your objective. Know definitely what you want.


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[Assistant] Secondly, construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire.


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[Assistant] An event which implies fulfillment of your desire. Something that will have the action of self predominant.


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[Assistant] Thirdly, immobilize the physical body and induce a condition akin to sleep.


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[Assistant] Lie on a bed or relax in a chair and imagine that you are sleepy.


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[Assistant] Then, with eyelids closed and your attention focused on the action you intend to experience, in imagination,


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[Assistant] Mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action.


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[Assistant] Imagining all the while that you are actually performing the action here and now.


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[Assistant] You must always participate in the imaginary action. Not merely stand back and look on, but you must feel that you are actually performing the action so that the imaginary sensation is real to you.


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[Assistant] It is important always to remember that the proposed action


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[Assistant] Must be one which follows the fulfillment of your desire.


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[Assistant] And also, you must feel yourself into the action until it has all the vividness and distinctness of reality. For example, suppose you desired promotion in office.


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[Assistant] Being congratulated would be an event you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire.


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[Assistant] Having selected this action as the one you will experience in imagination, immobilize the physical body and induce a state akin to sleep.


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[Assistant] Now imagine that a friend is standing before you. Put your imaginary hand into his. First feel it to be solid and real.


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[Assistant] Then carry on an imaginary conversation with him in harmony with the action.


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[Assistant] Do not visualize yourself at a distance and point of space and at a distance and point of time being congratulated on your good fortune. Instead, make elsewhere here, and the future now.


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[Assistant] And oddly enough, now, in a dimensionally larger world,


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[Assistant] Is equivalent to here in the ordinary three-dimensional space of everyday life.


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[Assistant] The difference between feeling yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action as though you were on a motion picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.


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[Assistant] The difference will be appreciated if you will now visualize yourself climbing a ladder. Then with eyelids closed,


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[Assistant] Imagine that a ladder is right in front of you and feel you're actually climbing it.


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[Assistant] Desire, physical immobility bordering on sleep, an imaginary action in which self-feelingly predominates, here and now.


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[Assistant] are not only important factors in altering the future, but they are essential conditions in consciously projecting the spiritual self.


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[Assistant] If, when the physical body is immobilized, we become possessed of the idea to do something, and imagine that we are doing it here and now and keep the imaginary action feelingly going right up until sleep ensues.


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[Assistant] We are likely to awaken out of the physical body to find ourselves in a dimensionally larger world with a dimensionally larger focus and actually doing what we desired and imagined we were doing in the flesh.


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[Assistant] Whether we awaken there or not, we are actually performing the action in the fourth dimensional world.


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[Assistant] And we will reenact it in the future, here in the third dimensional world.


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[Assistant] Experience has taught me to restrict the imaginary action, to condense the idea which is to be the object of our meditation into a single act, and to re-enact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, the attention will wander off along an associational track, and hosts of associated images will be presented to our attention.


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[Assistant] In a few seconds, they will lead us hundreds of miles away from our objective in point of space and years away in point of time.


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[Assistant] If we decide to climb a particular flight of stairs because that is the likely event to follow the realization of our desire, then we must restrict the action to climbing that particular flight of stairs.


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[Assistant] Should our attention wander off, we must bring it back to its task of climbing that flight of stairs and keep on doing so until the imaginary action has all the solidity and distinctness of reality.


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[Assistant] Drowsiness facilitates change because it favors attention without effort.


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[Assistant] But rather a moderate degree of drowsiness, in which we are still able to direct our thoughts.


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[Assistant] The most effective way to embody a desire is to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and then, in a relaxed and sleepy state, repeat over and over again, like a lullaby.


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[Assistant] Any short phrase which implies fulfillment of our desire, such as, thank you.


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[Assistant] If however we seek a conscious projection into a dimensionally larger world, then we must keep the action going right up until sleep ensues. Experience and imagination, with all the distinctness of reality,


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[Assistant] What would be experienced in the flesh were you to achieve your goal?


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[Assistant] And you shall in time meet it in the flesh as you met it in your imagination. Feed the mind with premises, that is assertions presumed to be true,


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[Assistant] Because assumptions, though unreal to the senses, if persisted in until they have the feeling of reality, will harden into facts.


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[Assistant] To an assumption, all means which promote its realization are good.


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[Assistant] It influences the behavior of all by inspiring in all the movements, the actions, and the words which tend towards its fulfillment.


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[Assistant] For it is too a dimensionally larger world that we go to alter our future.


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[Assistant] The observation of an event before it occurs implies that the event is predetermined from the point of view of man in the three-dimensional world.


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[Assistant] Therefore, to change the conditions here in the three dimensions of space, we must first change them in the four dimensions of space.


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[Assistant] Man does not know exactly what is meant by a dimensionally larger world and would no doubt deny the existence of a dimensionally larger self.


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[Assistant] He is quite familiar with the three dimensions of length, width and height, and he feels that if there were a fourth dimension, it should be just as obvious to him as the dimensions of length, width and height. A dimension is not a line.


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[Assistant] It is any way in which a thing can be measured that is entirely different from all other ways.


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[Assistant] That is, to measure a solid fourth dimensionally.


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[Assistant] There is no such thing as an instantaneous object. Its appearance and disappearance are measurable. It endures for a definite length of time.


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[Assistant] We can measure its lifespan without using the dimensions of length, width, and height.


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[Assistant] Time is definitely a fourth way of measuring an object.


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[Assistant] The more dimensions an object has, the more substantial and real it becomes.


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[Assistant] ...acquires shape, mass and substance by the addition of dimensions.


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[Assistant] What new quality would time, the fourth dimension, give, which would make it just as vastly superior to solids as solids are to surfaces, and surfaces are to lines?


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[Assistant] Time is a medium for changes in experience because all changes take time. The new quality is changeability.


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[Assistant] Observe that if we bisect a solid, its cross section will be a surface.


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[Assistant] By bisecting a surface, we obtain a line. And by bisecting a line, we get a point.


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[Assistant] This means that a point is but a cross section of a line, which is in turn but a cross section of a surface, which is in turn but a cross section of a solid, which is in turn, if carried to its logical conclusion,


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[Assistant] We cannot avoid the inference that all three dimensional objects are but cross sections of four dimensional bodies. Which means, when I meet you,


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[Assistant] The four dimension self that is not seen.


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[Assistant] To see the four dimensional self, I must see every cross section or moment of your life from birth to death, and see them all as coexisting.


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[Assistant] My focus should take in the entire array of sensory impressions which you have experienced on earth, plus those you might encounter.


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[Assistant] I should see them not in the order in which they were experienced by you but as a present whole.


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[Assistant] Because change is the characteristic of the fourth dimension.


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[Assistant] If we have all this clearly fixed in our minds, what does it mean to us in the three-dimensional world?


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[Assistant] It means that if we can move along time's length, we can see the future and alter it as we so desire.


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[Assistant] This world, which we think so solidly real, is a shadow, out of which and beyond which, we may at any time pass.


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[Assistant] A more fundamental world abstracted from a still more fundamental and dimensionally larger world, and so on to infinity.


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[Assistant] The Absolute is unattainable by any means or analysis, no matter how many dimensions we add to the world.


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[Assistant] Man can prove the existence of a dimensionally larger world simply by focusing his attention on an invisible state and imagining that he sees and feels it.


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[Assistant] If he remains concentrated in this state, his present environment will pass away.


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[Assistant] And he will awaken in a dimensionally larger world where the object of his contemplation will be seen as a concrete objective reality.


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[Assistant] He would discover that every time he retreats into his inner mind and brings about an externalization of time, space becomes dimensionally larger. And he would therefore conclude that both time and space are serial.


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[Assistant] And that the drama of life is but the climbing of a multitudinous dimensional time block.


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[Assistant] To change the future, we need only concern ourselves with two worlds in the infinite series. The world we know by reason of our bodily organs, and the world we perceive independently of our bodily organs.


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[Assistant] Men believe in the reality of the external world because they do not know how to focus and condense their powers to penetrate its thin crust.


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[Assistant] The objective world vanishes by turning our attention away from it.


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[Assistant] We have only to concentrate on the state desired in order to mentally see it.


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[Assistant] But to give it reality so that it will become an objective fact, we must focus attention upon the invisible state until it has the feeling of reality.


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[Assistant] When, through concentrated attention, our desire appears to possess the distinctness and feeling of reality, we have given it the right to become a visible concrete fact.


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[Assistant] If it is difficult to control the direction of your attention while in a state akin to sleep, you may find gazing fixedly into an object very helpful.


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[Assistant] Do not look at its surface, but into and beyond any plane object such as a wall, a carpet, or any other object which possesses depth.


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[Assistant] Arrange it to return as little reflection as possible.


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[Assistant] Imagine then that in this depth you are seeing and hearing what you want to see and hear until your attention is exclusively occupied by the imagined state.


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[Assistant] At the end of your meditation when you awake from your controlled waking dream, you feel as though you had returned from a great distance.


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[Assistant] The visible world which you had shut out returns to consciousness and by its very presence informs you that you have been self-deceived into believing that the object of your contemplation was real.


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[Assistant] If you know that consciousness is the one and only reality, you will remain faithful to your vision, and by this sustained mental attitude, confirm your gift of reality, and prove that you have the power to give reality to your desires, that they may become visible concrete facts.


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[Assistant] Define your ideal and concentrate your attention upon the idea of identifying yourself with your ideal.


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[Assistant] Assume the feeling of being it. The feeling that would be yours were you already the embodiment of your ideal.


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[Assistant] This assumption, though denied by the senses, if persisted in, will become fact.


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[Assistant] In dialogues with yourself, you are less inhibited and more sincere than in actual conversations with others. Therefore, the opportunity for self-analysis arises when you are surprised by your mental conversations with others. If you see them as you formerly saw them, you have not changed your concept of self.


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[Assistant] For all changes of concepts of self result in a changed relationship to your world.


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[Assistant] In your meditation, allow others to see you as they would see you were this new concept of self a concrete fact.


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[Assistant] Therefore, in meditation, when you contemplate others, you must be seen by them mentally, as you would be seen by them physically, were your concept of self an objective fact.


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[Assistant] That is in meditation you imagine that they see you expressing that which you desire to be. If you assume that you are what you want to be, your desire is fulfilled.


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[Assistant] And in fulfillment, all longing is neutralized.


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[Assistant] Your desire is not something you labor to fulfill. It is recognizing something you already possess.


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[Assistant] The conceiver and his conception are one, therefore that which you conceive yourself to be can never be so far off as even to be near, for nearness implies separation.


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[Assistant] If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.


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[Assistant] Being is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen. If you assume that you are what you want to be,


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[Assistant] Then you will see others as they are related to your assumption.


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[Assistant] If however, it is the good of others that you desire, then, in meditation, you must represent them to yourself as already being that which you desire them to be.


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[Assistant] It is through desire that you rise above your present sphere and the road from longing to fulfillment is shortened as you experience in imagination what you would experience in the flesh, were you already the embodiment of the ideal you desire to be.


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[Assistant] I have stated that man has at every moment of time the choice before him which of several futures he will encounter. But the question arises


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[Assistant] How is this possible when the experiences of man awake in the three-dimensional world are predetermined


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[Assistant] This ability to change the future will be seen if we liken the experiences of life on earth to this printed page.


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[Assistant] Man experiences events on earth singly and successively in the same way that you are now experiencing the words of this page.


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[Assistant] To get the context. To understand my meaning.


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[Assistant] You focus your vision on the first word in the upper left hand corner


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[Assistant] By the time your eyes reached the last word on this page, you have extracted my meaning.


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[Assistant] Suppose, however, on looking at the page with all the printed words thereon equally present, you decided to rearrange them.


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[Assistant] You could by rearranging them tell an entirely different story. In fact, you could tell many different stories.


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[Assistant] A dream is nothing more than uncontrolled four-dimensional thinking.


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[Assistant] Or the rearrangement of both past and future sensory impressions.


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[Assistant] He usually dreams of two or more events which are separated in time, fused into a single sensory impression. Or in his dream,


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[Assistant] He so completely rearranges his single waking sensory impressions that he does not recognize them when he encounters them in his waking state.


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[Assistant] For example, I dreamed that I delivered a package to the restaurant in my apartment building. The hostess said to me, you can't leave that there.


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[Assistant] Whereupon the elevator operator gave me a few letters, and as I thanked him for them, he in turn thanked me.


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[Assistant] At this point the night elevator operator appeared and waved a greeting to me. The following day, as I left my apartment, I picked up a few letters which had been placed at my door.


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[Assistant] On my way down I gave the day elevator operator a tip and thanked him for taking care of my mail, whereupon he thanked me for the tip. On my return home that day I overheard a doorman say to a delivery man, you can't leave that there. As I was about to take the elevator up to my apartment I was attracted by a familiar face in the restaurant.


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[Assistant] And as I looked in, the hostess greeted me with a smile.


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[Assistant] And as I said goodbye to them, the night operator waved good night to me.


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[Assistant] I constructed a dream which differed quite a bit from my waking experience.


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[Assistant] When we have learned to control the movements of our attention in the four dimensional world, we shall be able to consciously create circumstances in the three dimensional world. We learn this control through the waking dream, where our attention can be maintained without effort.


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[Assistant] Consciously construct an event which we desire to experience in the three-dimensional world.


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[Assistant] The sensory impressions we use to construct our waking dream are present realities displaced in time or the four-dimensional world.


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[Assistant] All that we do in constructing the waking dream is to select from the vast array of sensory impressions those which, when they are properly arranged, imply that we have realized our desire. With a dream clearly defined,


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[Assistant] leaves us in conscious control of the movements of our attention when we have achieved that state


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[Assistant] We experience in imagination what we would experience in reality were this waking dream an objective fact.


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[Assistant] In applying this technique to change the future, it is important always to remember that the only thing which occupies the mind during the waking dream is the waking dream.


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[Assistant] The predetermined action, which implies the fulfillment of our desire.


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[Assistant] How the waking dream becomes physical fact is not our concern.


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[Assistant] Our acceptance of the waking dream as physical reality wills the means for its fulfillment.


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[Assistant] Construct an event which you believe you will encounter following the fulfillment of your desire, something which will have the action of self-predominant


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[Assistant] Immobilize the physical body and induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep.


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[Assistant] Then mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action.


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[Assistant] Imagining all the while that you are actually performing the action here and now, so that you experience in imagination what you would experience in the flesh, were you now to realize your goal.


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[Assistant] Experience has convinced me that this is the perfect way to achieve my goal.


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[Assistant] Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize.


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[Assistant] Men claim that a true judgment must conform to the external reality to which it relates.


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[Assistant] It is true that I believe in my freedom, but it does not follow that I am free, for I may be the victim of illusion.


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[Assistant] But because of my own experiences, I have come to believe in so many strange things that I see little reason to doubt the truth of things that are beyond my experience.


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[Assistant] The ancient teachers warned us not to judge from appearances, because, said they, the truth need not conform to the external reality to which it relates.


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[Assistant] They claimed that we bore false witness, if we imagined evil against another, that no matter how real our belief appears to be, how truly it conforms to the external reality to which it relates, if it does not make free the one of whom we hold the belief, it is untrue, and therefore a false judgment.


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[Assistant] We are called upon to deny the evidence of our senses and to imagine as true of our neighbor that which makes him free. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.


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[Assistant] To know the truth of our neighbor, we must assume that he is already that which he desires to be.


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[Assistant] Any concept we hold of another that is short of his fulfilled desire will not make him free and therefore cannot be the truth.


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[Assistant] My schooling was devoted almost exclusively to the power of imagination.


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[Assistant] I sat for hours imagining myself to be other than that which my reason and my senses dictated


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[Assistant] Until the imagined states were vivid as reality.


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[Assistant] So vivid that passerby became but a part of my imagination and acted as I would have them.


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[Assistant] By the power of imagination my fantasy led theirs and dictated to them their behavior and the discourse they held together while I was identified with my imagined state.


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[Assistant] Man's imagination is the man himself, and the world as imagination sees it is the real world.


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[Assistant] But it is our duty to imagine all that is lovely and of good report.


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[Assistant] The Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh upon the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh upon the heart. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.


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[Assistant] In meditation when the brain grows luminous, I find my imagination endowed with a magnetic power to attract to me whatsoever I desire.


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[Assistant] Desire is the power imagination uses to fashion life about me as I fashion it within myself.


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[Assistant] I first desire to see a certain person or scene, and then I look as though I were seeing that which I want to see.


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[Assistant] And the imagined state becomes objectively real.


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[Assistant] I desire to hear, and then I listen as though I were hearing.


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[Assistant] And the imagined voice speaks that which I dictate as though it had initiated the message.


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[Assistant] I could give you many examples to prove my arguments, to prove that these imagined states do become physical realities.


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[Assistant] But I know that my examples will awaken in all who have not met the like, or who are not inclined towards my arguments, a most natural incredulity.


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[Assistant] Called things that were not seen as though they were and the unseen not only became seen but eventually became physical realities. By this method


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[Assistant] First desiring, and then imagining that we are experiencing that which we desire to experience.


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[Assistant] For the imagination waits on us as indifferently and as swiftly when our nature is evil as when it is good. From us spring forth good and evil


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[Assistant] Desire and imagination are the enchanter's wand of fable, and they draw to themselves their own affinities.


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[Assistant] They break forth best when the mind is in a state akin to sleep.


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[Assistant] But I shall give one more formula for opening the door of the larger world.


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[Assistant] In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed,


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[Assistant] In dream we are usually the servant of our vision, rather than its master, but the internal fantasy of dream can be turned into an external reality.


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[Assistant] And I know that the forms in dream are not flat, two-dimensional images which modern psychologists believe them to be.


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[Assistant] At the command to awake, while firmly holding onto the object of the dream, I am pulled through myself with the distinct feeling of awakening from dreams.


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[Assistant] I awaken in another sphere holding the object of my dream to find that I am no longer the servant of my vision, but its master.


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[Assistant] For I am fully conscious and in control of the movements of my attention.


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[Assistant] It is in this fully conscious state when we are in control of the direction of thought that we call things that are not seen as though they were.


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[Assistant] Unlike the world of three dimensions, where there is an interval between our assumption and its fulfillment.


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[Assistant] In the dimensionally larger world, there is an immediate realization of our assumption.


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[Assistant] The external reality instantly mirrors our assumption.


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[Assistant] We look again as though we saw and lo and behold the fields are already white to harvest. In this dimensionally larger world ye shall not need to fight.


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[Assistant] And because that greater world is slowly passing through our three dimensional world, we can, by the power of imagination, mold our world in harmony with our desire. Look as though you saw. Listen as though you heard.


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[Assistant] Stretch forth your imaginary hand as though you touched, and your assumptions will harden into facts.


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[Assistant] To those who believe that a true judgment must conform to the external reality to which it relates, this will be foolishness and a stumbling block.


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[Assistant] But I preach and practice the fixing and consciousness of that which man desires to realize.


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[Assistant] Experience convinces me that fixed attitudes of mind, which do not conform to the external reality to which they relate and are therefore called imaginary, things which are not,


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[Assistant] We'll nevertheless bring to naught things that are.


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[Assistant] I do not wish to write a book of wonders, but rather to turn man's mind back to the one and only reality that the ancient teachers worshipped as God.


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[Assistant] All that was said of God was in reality said of man's consciousness. So we may say that according as it is written


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[Assistant] No man needs help to direct him in the application of this law of consciousness.


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[Assistant] I am is the self-definition of the absolute, the root out of which everything grows. I am the Vine.


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[Assistant] What is your answer to the eternal question, who am I?


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[Assistant] Your answer, that is your concept of self, need not conform to the external reality to which it relates. This great truth is revealed in the statement, Let the weak say, I am strong. Joel chapter 3 verse 10.


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[Assistant] Look back over the good resolutions with which many past New Years are encumbered. They lived a little while, and then they died. Why? Because they were severed from their root. Assume that you are that which you want to be.


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[Assistant] Experience in imagination what you would experience in the flesh, were you already that which you want to be.


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[Assistant] Things have no life if they are severed from their roots, and our consciousness, our I am-ness, is the root of all that springs in our world. If ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins. John chapter 8 verse 24.


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[Assistant] That is, if I do not believe that I am already that which I desire to be, then I remain as I am and die in my present concept of self.


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[Assistant] There is no power outside of the consciousness of man to resurrect and make alive that which man desires to experience.


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[Assistant] And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. John chapter 17 verse 19.


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[Assistant] The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.


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[Assistant] It is now my purpose to retell and to emphasize an experience of mine, printed by me two years ago.


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[Assistant] I believe these quotations from this search will help us to understand the operation of the law of consciousness.


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[Assistant] And show us that we have no one to change but self.


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[Assistant] Once in an idle interval at sea, I meditated on the perfect state.


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[Assistant] And wondered what I would be, were I of two pure eyes to behold iniquity,


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[Assistant] If to me all things were pure and were I without condemnation, as I became lost in this fiery brooding


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[Assistant] Voices, as from a heavenly chorus, with the exultation of those who had been conquerors in a conflict with death, were singing. He is risen. He is risen. And intuitively I knew they meant me. Then I seemed to be walking in the night.


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[Assistant] Waiting not for the moving of the water as of tradition, but waiting for me.


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[Assistant] As I came near, without thought or effort on my part, they were, one after the other, molded as by the magician of the beautiful.


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[Assistant] Eyes, hands, feet, all missing members were drawn from some invisible reservoir and molded in harmony with that perfection which I felt springing within me. When all were made perfect, the chorus exulted, It is finished. Then the scene dissolved and I awoke.


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[Assistant] For my meditations invariably bring about union with the state contemplated.


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[Assistant] My mystical experiences have convinced me that there is no way to bring about the outer perfection we seek, other than by the transformation of ourselves.


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[Assistant] There is no transforming power in death, and whether we are here or there,


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[Assistant] We fashion the world that surrounds us by the intensity of our imagination and feeling. And we illuminate or darken our lives by the concepts we hold of ourselves.


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[Assistant] Nothing is more important to us than our conception of ourselves, and especially is this true of our concept of the dimensionally greater One within us.


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[Assistant] Because life molds the outer world to reflect the inner arrangement of our minds, there is no way of bringing about the outer perfection we seek other than by the transformation of ourselves.


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[Assistant] No help cometh from without. The hills to which we lift our eyes are those of an inner range.


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[Assistant] It is thus to our own consciousness that we must turn as to the only reality.


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[Assistant] We can rely absolutely on the justice of this law to give us only that which is of the nature of ourselves.


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[Assistant] To attempt to change the world before we change our concept of ourselves is to struggle against the nature of things.


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[Assistant] There can be no outer change until there is first an inner change. As within, so without.


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[Assistant] I am not advocating philosophical indifference when I suggest that we should imagine ourselves as already that which we want to be, living in a mental atmosphere of greatness, rather than using physical means and arguments to bring about the desired change. Everything we do, unaccompanied by a change of consciousness, is but futile readjustment of surfaces.


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[Assistant] However we toil or struggle, we can receive no more than our assumptions affirm.


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[Assistant] To protest against anything which happens to us is to protest against the law of our being and our rulership over our own destiny.


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[Assistant] The circumstances of my life are too closely related to my conception of myself not to have been formed by my own spirit from some dimensionally larger storehouse of my being.


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[Assistant] For I am moved here and there and made to live in a world in harmony with my concept of myself.


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[Assistant] Intense meditation brings about a union with the state contemplated.


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[Assistant] And during this union we see visions, have experiences, and behave in keeping with our change of consciousness. This shows us that a transformation of consciousness will result in a change of environment and behavior.


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[Assistant] All wars prove that violent emotions are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements.


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[Assistant] Every great conflict has been followed by an era of materialism and greed in which the ideals for which the conflict ostensibly was waged are submerged. This is inevitable.


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[Assistant] Because war evokes hate, which impels a descent in consciousness from the plane of the ideal to the level where the conflict is waged.


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[Assistant] If we would become as emotionally aroused over our ideals as we become over our dislikes.


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[Assistant] We would ascend to the plane of our ideal as easily as we now descend to the level of our hates. Love and hate have a magical transforming power.


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[Assistant] And we grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.


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[Assistant] By intensity of hatred we create in ourselves the character we imagine in our enemies.


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[Assistant] Qualities die for want of attention, so the unlovely states might best be rubbed out by imagining beauty for ashes and joy for mourning.


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[Assistant] Rather than by direct attacks on the state from which we would be free. Whatsoever things are lovely and of good report, think on these things. For we become that with which we are on rapport.


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[Assistant] There is nothing to change but our concept of self.


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[Assistant] Look, I want some bandage, some adhesive tape. I was just closing up, please. Some kind of sulphur. I've got sulphur ointment I usually recommend. Okay. I'll be using your phone.


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[Assistant] Chapter 10. Travels without the sun.


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[Assistant] Who's there? Shouted the three travelers. I am the warden of the marches of Underland, and with me stand a hundred Earthmen in arms, came the reply. Tell me quickly who you are, and what is your errand in the deep realm? We fell down by accident, said Puddleglum, truthfully enough. Many fall down, and few return to the sunlit lands, said the voice.


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[Assistant] Make ready now to come with me to the queen of the deep realm. What does she want for this? Asked scrub cautiously. I do not know, said the voice.


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[Assistant] Her will is not to be questioned but obeyed. While he said these words, there was a noise like a soft explosion.


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[Assistant] And immediately a cold light, grey, with a little blue in it, flooded the cabin.


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[Assistant] All hope that the speaker had been idly boasting when he spoke of his hundred armed followers died at once.


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[Assistant] Jill found herself blinking and staring at a dense crowd. They were of all sizes, from little gnomes barely a foot high, to stately figures taller than men. All carried three-pronged spears in their hands, and all were dreadfully pale, and all stood as still as statues. Apart from that, they were very different. Some had tails, and others not. Some wore great beards,


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[Assistant] There were long pointed noses and long soft noses like small trunks and great blobby noses. Several had single horns in the middle of their foreheads, but in one respect they were all alike.


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[Assistant] Every face in the whole hundred was as sad as a face could be. They were so sad, that after the first glance, Jill almost forgot to be afraid of them. She felt she would like to cheer them up. Well, said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands, this is just what I needed.


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[Assistant] If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will. Look at that fellow with the walrus moustache, or that one with the, get up, said the leader of the earthmen. There was nothing else to be done. The three travelers scrambled to their feet and joined hands. One wanted the touch of a friend's hand at a moment like that.


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[Assistant] And the earthmen came all round them, padding on large, soft feet, on which some had ten toes, some twelve, and others none. March, said the warden, and march they did.


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[Assistant] The cold light came from a large ball on the top of a long pole.


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[Assistant] They could see that they were in a natural cavern. The walls and roof were knobbed.


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[Assistant] And when they went on, the cave got lower and narrower, and when at last the lightbearers stood aside, and the gnomes, one by one, stooped down,


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[Assistant] All except the very smallest ones and stepped into a little dark crack and disappeared. She felt she could bear it no longer. I, I can't go in there. I can't, I can't, I won't, she panted. The earthmen said nothing, but they all lowered their spears and pointed them at her. Steady pole, said Puddleglum.


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[Assistant] Then we'll all be comfortable. Comfortable, said Jill. But she got down and they crawled in on their elbows. It was a nasty place.


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[Assistant] You had to go flat on your face for what seemed like half an hour, though it may really have been only five minutes. It was hot. Jill felt she was being smothered. But at last, a dim light showed ahead. The tunnel grew wider and higher, and they came out hot, dirty and shaken into a cave so large that it scarcely seemed like a cave at all. It was full of a dim, drowsy radiance.


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[Assistant] So that here they had no need of the earthman's strange lantern. The floor was soft with some kind of moss, and out of this grew many strange shapes, branched and tall like trees, but flabby like mushrooms. They stood too far apart to make a forest. It was more like a park. The light, a greenish gray, seemed to come both from them and from the moss. And it was not strong enough to reach the roof of the cave,


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[Assistant] Across the mild, soft, sleepy place, they were now made to march. It was very sad, but with a quiet sort of sadness like soft music. Here they passed dozens of strange animals lying on the turf, either dead or asleep. Jill could not tell which. These were mostly of a dragonish or bat-like sort. Puddlegum did not know what any of them were. Do they grow here? Scrub asked the warden.


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[Assistant] He seemed very surprised at being spoken to but replied, No, they are all beasts.


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[Assistant] That have found their way down by chasms and caves out of overland into the deep realm. Many come down and few return to the sunlit lands. It is said that they will all wake at the end of the world. His mouth shut like a box when he had said this and in the great silence of that cave, the children felt that they would not dare to speak again. The bare feet of the gnomes


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[Assistant] Padding on the deep moss made no sound. There was no wind. There were no birds. There was no sound of water. There was no sound of breathing from the strange beasts.


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[Assistant] When they had walked for several miles, they came to a wall of rock, and in it a low archway leading into another cabin. It was not, however, so bad as the last entrance, and Jill could go through it without bending her head.


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[Assistant] It brought them into a smaller cave, long and narrow, about the shape and size of a cathedral. And here, filling almost the whole length of it, lay an enormous man, fast asleep. He was far bigger than any of the giants, and his face was not like a giant's but noble and beautiful.


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[Assistant] And now he has sunk down into the deep realm and lies.


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[Assistant] And out of that cave they passed into another and then into another and another and so on till Jill lost count. But always they were going downhill and each cave was lower than the last.


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[Assistant] Until the very thought of the weight and depth of earth above you was suffocating.


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[Assistant] A strip of pale sand ran down into still water. And there, beside a little jetty, lay a ship without mast or sail, but with many oars. They were made to go on board her, and led forward to the bowels, where there was a clear space in front of the rowers' benches, and a seat running round inside the bulwarks. One thing I'd like to know, said Puddlegum.


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[Assistant] Is whether anyone from our world, from up atop I mean, has ever done this trip before.


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[Assistant] The children huddled close together on each side of Puddleglum. They'd thought him a wet blanket while they were still above ground, but down here he seemed the only comforting thing they had. Then the pale lantern was hung up amid ships, the earthmen sat to the oars, and the ship began to move. The lantern cast its light only a very short way. Looking ahead, they could see nothing but smooth dark water, fading into absolute blackness.


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[Assistant] Whatever will become of us, said Jill despairingly. Now, don't let your spirits down, Pole, said the Marsh Wiggle. There's one thing you've got to remember. We're back on the right lines. We were to go under the ruined city, and we are under it. We're following the instructions again. Presently, they were given food. Flat, flabby cakes of some sort, which had hardly any taste. And after that, they gradually fell asleep.


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[Assistant] But when they woke, everything was just the same. The gnomes still rowing, the ship still gliding on, still dead blackness ahead. How often they woke and slept and ate and slept again, none of them could ever remember.


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[Assistant] And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you'd always lived on that ship. In that darkness.


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[Assistant] They saw that some of the lights ahead were shining on what looked like walls, towers, and moving crowds. But still there was hardly any noise. By Jove, said Scrub, a city. And soon they all saw that he was right. But it was a queer city. The lights were so few and far apart that they would hardly have done for scattered cottages in our world. But the little bits of the place which you could see by the lights


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[Assistant] You could make out in one place a whole crowd of ships loading or unloading, in another bales of stuff and warehouses, in a third


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[Assistant] Walls and pillars that suggested great palaces or temples, and always, wherever the light fell, endless crowds, hundreds of earthmen.


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[Assistant] Just fling one another as they padded softly about their business in narrow streets, broad squares, or up great flights of steps. Their continued movement made a sort of soft murmuring noise as the ship drew nearer and nearer. But there was not a song, or a shout, or a bell, or the rattle of a wheel anywhere. The city was as quiet and nearly as dark as the inside of an ant hill.


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[Assistant] The three travelers were taken ashore and marched up into the city.


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[Assistant] Crowds of Earthmen, no two alike, rub shoulders with them in the crowded streets.


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[Assistant] And the sad light fell on many sad and grotesque faces, but no one showed any interest in the strangers. Every gnome seemed to be as busy as it was sad, though Jill never found what they were so busy about.


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[Assistant] At last they came to what appeared to be a great castle, though few of the windows in it were lighted. Here they were taken in and made to cross a courtyard and to climb many staircases. This brought them, in the end, to a great, murkily lit room. But in one corner of it, oh, joy!


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[Assistant] There was an archway filled with a quite different sort of light.


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[Assistant] What showed by this light inside the archway was the foot of a staircase which wound upward between walls of stone. The light seemed to come from the top.


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[Assistant] Two earthmen stood, one on each side of the arch, like sentries or footmen. The warden went up to these two and said, as if it were a password, Many sink down to the underworld.


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[Assistant] At that moment the conversation was interrupted by what seemed to Jill the most delightful noise in the world. It came from above, from the top of the staircase. But it was a clear, ringing, perfectly human voice. The voice of a young man.


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[Assistant] What choir are you keeping down there, Monogatheerum? It shouted. Overworlders, ha! Bring them up to me, and that presently.


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[Assistant] Pleased your highness to remember, began Malaga theorem, but the voice cut him short.


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[Assistant] It pleases my highness principally to be obeyed, old matterer. Bring them up, it called.


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[Assistant] Malaga Theorem shook his head, motioned to the travellers to follow, and began going up the staircase. At every step the light increased. There were rich tapestries hanging on the walls.


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[Assistant] But stay a moment, I cry your mercy. I've seen you two fair children, and this your strange governor before.


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[Assistant] Was it not you three that met me by the bridge on the borders of Ettingsmore when I rode there by my ladies side? Oh, you were the black knight who never spoke, explained Jill.


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[Assistant] And was that lady the Queen of Underland? Asked Puddleglum in no very friendly voice. And Scrubb?


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[Assistant] If you are not so young a warrior boy, you and I must have fought to the death on this quarrel. I can hear no words against my lady's honor. But of this you may be assured.


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[Assistant] But whatever she said to you, she said of a good intent. You do not know her.


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[Assistant] She is a nose gay of all virtues as truth, mercy, constancy, gentleness, courage, and the rest. I say what I know. Her kindness to me alone


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[Assistant] Who can in no way reward her would make an admirable history, but you shall know and love her hereafter. Meanwhile, what is your errand in the deep lands? And before Puddlegum could stop her, Jill blurted out, please, we're trying to find Prince Rillian of Narnia. And then she realized what a frightful risk she'd taken. These people might be enemies, but the night showed no interest.


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[Assistant] Narnia, he said carelessly. Narnia? What land is that? I've never heard the name.


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[Assistant] It was a strange fantasy that brought you seeking this, how do you call him?


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[Assistant] Billion, uh, trillion in my ladies' realm.


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[Assistant] Indeed, with my certain knowledge, there is no such man. He laughed very loudly at this, and Jill thought to herself, I wonder is that what's wrong with his face? Is he a bit silly?


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[Assistant] We've been told to look for a message on the stones of the city ruinous, said scrub, and we saw the words under me. The knight laughed even more heartily than before. You are the more deceived, he said.


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[Assistant] Those words meant nothing to your purpose. Had you but asked my lady, she could have given you better counsel. For those words are all that is left of a longer script.


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[Assistant] Which in ancient times, as she well remembers, expressed this verse.


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[Assistant] Though the breaking up of some stones and the carrying away of others for new buildings and the filling up of the cuts with rubble has left only two words that can still be read.


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[Assistant] Is it not the merriest jest in the world that you should have thought they were written to you? This was like cold water down the back to scrubbing Jill.


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[Assistant] And he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut. And he knew already all things that would come of them, including this.


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[Assistant] Answered Puddlegum, that this lady of yours must be a long-liver too, if she remembers the verse as it was when they first cut it. There is shrewd Frogface.


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[Assistant] I am the more thankful to her for all her infinite bounty to such a poor mortal wretch as I. For you must know, sirs, I am a man under most strange afflictions.


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[Assistant] And none but the Queen's Grace would have had patience with me. Patience, said I, but it goes far beyond that.


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[Assistant] She has promised me a great kingdom in Overland, and when I am king, her most gracious hand in marriage. But the tale is too long for you to hear, fasting and standing. Hi there, some of you! Bring wine and up-dweller food for my guests. Please, you besieged gentlemen, little maiden, sit in this chair. You shall hear it all.


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[Assistant] When they got down into the plane, they found that this part of the ancient road was much more ruinous than any they had yet seen.


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[Assistant] At about ten o'clock, the first tiny snowflakes came loitering down and settled on Jill's arm. Ten minutes later,


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[Assistant] And by the end of half an hour, a good steady snowstorm.


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[Assistant] Which looked as if it meant to last all day was driving in their faces so that they could hardly see. In order to understand what followed, you must keep on remembering how little they could see.


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[Assistant] As they drew near the low hill which separated them from the place where the lighted windows had appeared, they had no general view of it at all.


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[Assistant] It was a question of seeing the next few paces ahead, and even for that you had to screw up your eyes. Needless to say, they were not talking.


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[Assistant] They caught a glimpse of what might be rocks on each side, squarish rocks, if you looked at them carefully. But no one did.


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[Assistant] All were more concerned with the ledge right in front of them which barred their way. It was about four feet high. The Marsh Wiggle, with his long legs, had no difficulty in jumping onto the top of it, and he then helped the others up. It was a nasty wet business for them, though not for him, because the snow now lay quite deep on the ledge. They then had a stiff climb, Jill fell once, up very rough ground for about a hundred yards,


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[Assistant] There were four of these ledges altogether at quite irregular intervals. As they struggled onto the fourth ledge,


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[Assistant] There was no mistaking the fact that they were now at the top of the flat hill. Up till now the slope had given them some shelter. Here they got the full fury of the wind, for the hill oddly enough,


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[Assistant] In most places the snow was still hardly lying at all for the wind kept catching it up off the ground in sheets and clouds and hurling it in their faces and round their feet


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[Assistant] Little eddies of snow ran about as you sometimes see them doing over ice. And indeed in many places the surface was almost as smooth as ice. But to make matters worse it was crossed


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[Assistant] And crisscrossed with curious banks or dikes, which sometimes divided it up into squares and oblongs. All these, of course, had to be climbed. They varied from two to five feet in height and were about a couple of yards thick. On the north side of each bank, the snow already lay in deep drifts. And after each climb, you came down into a drift and got wet.


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[Assistant] Fighting her way forward with hood up and head down and numb hands inside her cloak.


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[Assistant] Jill had glimpses of other odd things on that horrible table and things on her right


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[Assistant] She skidded, slid about five feet, and found herself to her horror, sliding down into a dark, narrow chasm, which seemed that moment to have appeared in front of her. Half a second later she had reached the bottom. She appeared to be in a kind of trench, or groove, only about three feet wide. And though she was shaken by the fall,


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[Assistant] The anxious faces of Scrub and Puddleglum looking down at her from the edge.


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[Assistant] Are you hurt, Pole? shouted Scrub. Both legs broken, I shouldn't wonder, shouted Puddlegum. Jill stood up and explained that she was all right, but they'd have to help her out. What is it you've fallen into? asked Scrub.


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[Assistant] It's a kind of trench, or it might be a kind of sunken lane or something, said Jill. It runs quite straight.


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[Assistant] Yes, by Jove, said Scrub, and it runs due north. I wonder, is it a sort of a road? If it was, we'd be out of this infernal wind down there. Is there a lot of snow at the bottom? Hardly any. It all blows over the top, I suppose. What happens further on? Half a sec, I'll go and see, said Jill. She got up and walked along the trench, but before she'd gone far, it turned sharply to the right.


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[Assistant] She shouted this information back to the others. What's round the corner? asked Scrubb.


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[Assistant] Now it happened that Jill had the same feeling about twisty passages and dark places underground, or even nearly underground, that Scrubb had about the edges of cliffs. She had no intention of going round that corner alone.


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[Assistant] Especially when she heard Puddlegum bawling out from behind her. Be careful, Paul!


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[Assistant] And in a giant country, there might be giant earthworms, or giant beetles.


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[Assistant] I don't think it goes anywhere much said Jill, coming hastily back.


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[Assistant] I'm jolly well gonna have a look, said Scrub. What do you mean by anywhere much I should like to know? So he sat down on the edge of the trench.


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[Assistant] Everyone was too wet by now to bother about being a bit wetter and then dropped in. He pushed past Jill, and though he didn't say anything, she felt sure that he knew she had funked it. So she followed him closely, but took care not to get in front of him.


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[Assistant] It proved, however, a disappointing exploration. They went round the right-hand turn and straight on for a few paces. Here there was a choice of ways, straight on again or sharp to the right. That's no good, said Scrub, glancing down the right-hand turn. That would be taking us back south. He went straight on.


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[Assistant] But once more in a few steps they found a second turn to the right. But this time there was no choice of ways, for the trench they'd been following here came to a dead end. No good, grunted Scrub. Jill lost no time in turning and leading the way back.


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[Assistant] When they returned to the place where Jill had first fallen in, the marsh wiggle with his long arms had no difficulty in pulling them out, but it was dreadful to be out on top again. Down in those narrow slits of trenches, their ears had almost begun to thaw.


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[Assistant] And it did seem hard when Puppleglum chose that moment for saying, You still sure of those signs, Pole? What's the one we ought to be after now? Oh, come on, bother the signs, said Pole.


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[Assistant] Something about someone mentioning Aslan's name, I think. But I'm jolly well not going to give a recitation here. As you see, she'd got the order wrong.


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[Assistant] This annoyance, added to the misery of being very cold and tired, made her say, bother the signs. She didn't perhaps quite mean it. Oh, that was next, was it? Said Puddlegum. Now I wonder, are you right? Or mixed, I shouldn't wonder. Seems to me this hill, this flat place we're on, is worth a stop to have a look at. Have you noticed?


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[Assistant] Oh law, said Scrub, is this the time for stopping to admire the view? For goodness sake, let's get on. Oh look, look, look, cried Jill and pointed. Everyone turned and everyone saw. Some way off to the north.


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[Assistant] Even more obviously than when the travellers had seen them the night before, they were windows. Smaller windows that made one think deliciously of bedrooms, and larger windows that made one think of great halls with fires roaring on the hearth.


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[Assistant] It began, Puddlegum, but the two children both said come on.


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[Assistant] And began stumbling forward on the slippery table and as quickly as their legs would carry them. The marsh wiggle followed them, still talking, but now that they were forcing their way into the wind again, they could not have heard him even if they'd wanted to, and they didn't want. They were thinking of baths and beds and hot drinks, and the idea of coming to Harfang too late and being shut out was almost unbearable. In spite of their haste,


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[Assistant] It took them a long time to cross the flat top of that hill, and even when they had crossed it, there were still several ledges to climb down on the far side. But at last, they reached the bottom and could see what Harthang was like. It stood on a high crag, and in spite of its many towers, was more a huge house than a castle. Obviously, the gentle giants feared no attack.


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[Assistant] There were windows in the outside wall quite close to the ground, a thing no one would have in a serious fortress. There were even odd little doors here and there.


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[Assistant] So that it would be quite easy to get in and out of the castle without going through the courtyard. This raised the spirits of Jill and Scrub, made the whole place look more friendly and less forbidding. At first, the height and steepness of the crag frightened them.


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[Assistant] But presently they noticed that there was an easier way up on the left and that the road wound up towards it. It was a terrible climb after the journey they had already had and Jill nearly gave up.


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[Assistant] It takes some nerve to walk up to a giant's front door. In spite of all his previous warnings against Harfang, it was Puddlegum who showed most courage. Steady pace now, he said. Don't look frightened wherever you do. We done the silliest thing of the world by coming at all.


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[Assistant] He was rather taller than an apple tree, but nothing like so tall as a telegraph pole. He had bristly red hair, a leather jerkin with metal plates fastened all over it so as to make a kind of male shirt, bare knees, very hairy indeed, and things like putties on his legs. He stooped down and goggles at putties.


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[Assistant] Jill took her courage in both hands. Please, she said, shouting up at the giant.


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[Assistant] The lady of the green kirtles salutes the king of the gentle giants.


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[Assistant] He looked at the children with curiosity. Blue faces.


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[Assistant] Our faces are only blue with cold, said Jill. We're not this colour really. Then come in and get warm. Come in, little shrimps, said the porter. They followed him into the lodge.


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[Assistant] I know it was rather terrible to hear such a big door clang shut behind them.


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[Assistant] They forgot about it as soon as they saw the thing they'd been longing for ever since suppertime the previous night. A fire. And such a fire.


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[Assistant] It looked as if four or five whole trees were blazing on it, and it was so hot they couldn't go within yards of it. But they all flopped down on the brick floor, as near as they could bear the heat, and heaved great sighs of relief. Now, youngster.


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[Assistant] Said the porter to another giant who had been sitting in the back of the room staring at the visitors till it looked as if his eyes would start out of his head, ran across with this message to their house, and he repeated what Jill had said to him. The younger giant, after a final stare and a great guffaw, left the room. Now, froggy, said the porter to Puddleglum, you look as if you wanted some cheering up.


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[Assistant] He produced a black bottle very like Puppleglums own, but about 20 times larger.


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[Assistant] The salt cellar was not very like one of ours, being narrower and more upright, and made quite a good cup for Puddleglum when the giant set it down on the floor beside him. The children expected Puddleglum to refuse it, distrusting the gentle giants as he did, but he muttered,


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[Assistant] I'm late to be thinking of precautions now that we're inside and the door's shut behind us. Then he sniffed at the liquor. Smells all right, he said. But that's nothing to go by. Better make sure. And took a sip. Tastes all right too, he said. But it might do that at the first sip. How's it go on? He took a larger sip. Ah, he said. But isn't it the same all the way


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[Assistant] replied Puddlegum in a somewhat indistinct voice, not frog neither. Marshwaggle. At that moment the door opened behind them and the younger giant came in saying they had to go to the throne room at once. The children stood up but Puddlegum remained sitting and said Marshwaggle. Marshwaggle. Very respectable Marshwaggle.


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[Assistant] Nothing wrong with me, said Puddlegum, not a frog, not a frog with me. I'm a respectable. But the young giant caught him up by the waist and signed to the children to follow. In this undignified way they crossed the courtyard. Puddlegum


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[Assistant] Held in the giant's fist and vaguely kicking the air did certainly look very like a frog. But they had little time to notice this.


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[Assistant] And after pattering along several corridors at a trot to keep up with the giant's paces,


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[Assistant] Found themselves blinking in the light of an enormous room where lamps glowed and a fire roared on the hearth and both were reflected from the gilding of roof and cornice.


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[Assistant] More giants than they could count stood on their left and right, all in magnificent robes.


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[Assistant] And on two thrones at the far end sat two huge shapes that appeared to be the king and queen. About twenty feet from the thrones they stopped.


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[Assistant] And the young giant carefully put Puddleglum down on the floor where he collapsed into a sort of sitting position. With his long limbs he looked, to tell the truth, uncommonly like a large spider.


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[Assistant] And that by the glorious intercession of the blessed Mary, ever virgin, we may both be delivered from present sorrows and be brought to eternal joys. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


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[Assistant] Oh no, don't make me go away. This is the only world I ever want to know. And I've never felt that I was only a novice. I made my vows to myself many years ago. And I've always tried to be what you wish me to be, haven't I?


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[Assistant] How strange that you're so wise, knowing nothing of our life, and that you do know.


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[Assistant] It was the only way I knew to make up for what I'd done, to leave the thing I loved most. It was like tearing my life out by the roots. But I didn't want any of the others to suffer, any of the sisters.


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[Assistant] Even though that life is not for me, I shall always be glad when I see men and women together that I know a little of what they feel for each other.


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[Assistant] My brain's a bit clearer now. Don't say anything about the lost prince. I'll explain later.


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[Assistant] It wouldn't do, wouldn't do to her what to do.


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[Assistant] Hello and welcome to Overboard, Polygon's card and board game show. And yes, that includes digital versions of board games like the one we're playing today.


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[Assistant] Codenames. This simple word game is easy to learn but deceptively hard to play. Here's how it's set up.


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[Assistant] First, random codename cards are laid out in a 5x5 grid. These cards have words on them, ranging from objects to concepts to countries. Players are divided into two teams, red and blue, and each team picks a spymaster or team leader.


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[Assistant] Everyone else is unoperative. Once the team's spymasters have been appointed, they both look at the key. This card reveals which codenames in the grid are team blues and which are team reds.


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[Assistant] To win the game, the spymaster simply needs to get their operatives to pick their team's cards.


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[Assistant] But this is a game of spies and code phrases, which means the spymaster has some restrictions in how they help their team find the correct cards. On their team's turn, the spymaster gives their team a clue and a number. The clue is just a single word, and the number indicates how many codename cards the clue applies to.


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[Assistant] For example, if the cards Doctor and Ambulance were both Team Blue cards, the blue Spymaster might say Medical too, since there are two cards that relate to the word Medical.


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[Assistant] There are a couple additional rules regarding clues. You can't use words that contain a word on the board, so you can't say horse or shoe if horseshoe is on the board.


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[Assistant] The rest of the rules are in a bit of a grey area, so we suggest deciding as a group how strict you want to be before you start playing. Homonyms just aren't for everyone.


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[Assistant] We also allowed the opposing team's operatives to trash talk however they see fit, but critically, neither team's spymasters should be weighing in. And that includes nonverbal clues. When the operatives agree on a card, they indicate it to their spymaster. If it's correct, they can continue guessing.


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[Assistant] If they pick a neutral card or one of their opponent's cards, their turn ends immediately.


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[Assistant] So your first guess should be the one you're most sure about. A team can also lose outright if they choose the black code name card.


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[Assistant] There's always one of these on the board, so it is imperative the Spymaster's Clue doesn't get anywhere near it. If a team guesses wrong, they can still make up for lost ground on a following turn.


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[Assistant] That's because operatives can always guess one more card than the number their spymaster gives. But operatives don't have to make an extra guess. If they like, they can simply end their turn.


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[Assistant] The first team to find all their cards wins the game, which is harder than it might seem. Spymasters have to weigh a lot when deciding on a clue, because they don't want to accidentally help the opposing team, and they really don't want to give a clue relating to the black codename card.


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[Assistant] Operatives also have to thread the needle in knowing how their spymaster thinks, while also not getting too lost in the weeds.


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[Assistant] Now it's time to play, because these rules will self-destruct in five. Four. Three. Two.


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[Assistant] Hello and welcome to Overboard, Polygon's board and card game and now online game show. Today we're playing Codenames and we are joined by a very special guest, Mari Takahashi, who is a wonderful internet personality and also the new correspondent on our Quibi show, Speedrun. Welcome Mari! Thanks for having me!


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[Assistant] No one's gonna believe a thing I say.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, steak farm, and also steaks come from farms? Here, okay, here's my problem, Brian. Forests are full of trees, which makes steaks. Soldiers carry steaks, and an iron steak sounds like something real.


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[Assistant] Uhm, now things are a little difficult.


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[Assistant] Isn't Ben and Jerry's logo a cow? I do think, I do think, oh no, I've convinced myself. I think vet's strong, but I also think ice cream is.


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[Assistant] I also don't think it's mug. Decompress, mug, like.


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[Assistant] Maybe you drink tea to decompress, but I think there are too many other things that you drink in mugs, such as coffee.


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[Assistant] I am, the problem that I am seeing is of course that technically


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[Assistant] If this is an alien pyramid conspiracy theory, I will die. However, I think Amazon, and I think that was actually our first in June.


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[Assistant] WOAH! Moo too is what Noah did when he brought two cows onto the ark!


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[Assistant] What? How interesting. Nooo. Really?


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[Assistant] By way of ontology. Okay. Okay. Door.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I like backdoor more than I like saloon.


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[Assistant] Saloon door or swing? Saloon? You wanna go saloon? Let's go saloon.


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[Assistant] Oh, thank goodness. Oh, thank goodness. Okay.


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[Assistant] Memory? Vet? Vets are soldiers? Sure do you? I don't wanna make this decision at all.


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[Assistant] I think that's the solid one. I think greenhouse is good.


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[Assistant] Ah, du- thank you! You can find me on the internet at AtomicMari. And yea, see you around there.


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[Assistant] This particular set of people, they are worthy and the other set of people, they are also worthy of being killed.


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[Assistant] Uh, were you new with the band? Well, my sister Donna and I sing with it. My brother plays in it, but mother feeds it.


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[Assistant] Oh no, the neighbor's room. Uh oh, here comes trouble.


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[Assistant] Your primary assumption should be that it contains pathogens such as Salmonella and Campylobacter.


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[Assistant] I ate a salad and now I have long term health effects from it.


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[Assistant] Once a year, we do what's called a school swap, where students that go to county high schools attend a school in the city for one day and then students in the city attend a school in the county for one day.


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[Assistant] Alt 98 7, LA's new alternative. Hi, it's Tamo joined by Billie Eilish. How are you? I'm good, how are you? Uh, way better since I saw your show Friday night at the Fonda.


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[Assistant] I just have to say, I mean, you just got named one of Forbes 30 under 30. You hit a billion streams, which is insane. And you just wrapped up your tour with three sold out shows at the Fonda last week. How are you feeling?


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[Assistant] Uh, sure. Sure. Sure. That sounds like the right thing to say.


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[Assistant] A lot of what I hear and I read is, oh, she's 16, she's 16, like, your age is only part of the story. And I'm sure you've gotta be over talking about how that is the forefront. Do you ever feel like your age overshadows your message or your talent or your accomplishments?


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[Assistant] I, no, I can totally see that because it's almost like you garner more attention because they're like, wow, she's doing this and she's 16, like everybody better pay attention.


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[Assistant] Why do I care about shit that I used to not care about? I know. There's a sense of liberation and freedom that you have when you're younger and a lot of people don't channel that and it sounds like you're doing a great job of it. Thank you.


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[Assistant] So one thing I noticed at the show Friday night was in the crowd, I mean you have all different types of ages and people, but there were so many women of all ages. And it was this emotional experience and the singing was almost chanting and it was every word to every song.


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[Assistant] Do you feel a sense of responsibility that you have the ear to so many, especially other young women or are you just gonna...


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[Assistant] You're still having fun and making the music and connecting and just grateful that you can connect.


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[Assistant] I have no idea. It's awesome is what it is. It is awesome. It is pretty awesome. It is very much deserved. Uhm, you know, everybody loves the label. And when I was telling a couple friends I'm going to the Billie Eilish show on Friday night,


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[Assistant] Uh, a handful of people were like, ah, that's awesome, and there's the handful that, you know, haven't heard your music, and they're like, oh, is she pop?


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[Assistant] Everybody has an opportunity. It's kind of like how a lot of performers and actresses and comedians feel about YouTube. Yeah. For musicians and artists, SoundCloud is such an amazing venue because you can put it there. That's genius.


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[Assistant] I love it. I love all your influences and it makes sense because I love you, I love the show. Uhm, for anybody that missed the shows at the Fonda last week,


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[Assistant] We have a huge show coming up with you and Bob Moses. December 12th at the Wiltern. It's our Share the Love Benefit show. I'm really excited to see the two of you on the same stage because it's both like


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[Assistant] Emotional in two different ways, I think you guys are gonna vibe. That's dope. I'm excited. That sounds sick.


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[Assistant] We're very excited to have you and for anybody that doesn't know, we're going to have a pre-sale that happens this week and you can sign up, get on the list, alt 98 7, FM, you'll have early access to those tickets. But Billy, thank you so much. Thank you. Do you like country by the way? I love country. You love country. Don't call me out like that. No, I'm just asking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I love country, and right now it's definitely a format that is experiencing the inability to put a label on it, because you have artists like


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[Assistant] Big night, big night last night for Donald Trump. Or, or whoever gave that speech.


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[Assistant] The point is just because you act presidential doesn't mean you are. When I put my head through that cutout on Coney Island, it doesn't mean I'm actually riding a dolphin.


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[Assistant] Victims of immigration crime engagement.


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[Assistant] You know what that means. That means they had victims of immigration crime and could not think of a good e-word.


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[Assistant] Well, however they did it, uh, the little acronym there, the program is called Voice, which I think means after they round up the immigrants, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton vote on who gets to stay in the country. Now...


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[Assistant] Now studies have shown that in fact immigrants actually have a lower crime rate than native born population. Come on immigrants, if you're gonna move here, you have to assimilate.


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[Assistant] Of course, the administration points out that some immigrants do commit terrible crimes, but that doesn't mean all of them are criminals. I'd say that the administration is cherry picking, but everyone knows Americans don't pick their own fruit.


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[Assistant] Well, I figured out a swell racket and everything was going great until the cops came along.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner. Well, Duke, I'm gonna turn in. Bonsoir. Bonsoir, Mike.


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[Assistant] You're sure you want me to tell all this, Audrey?


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[Assistant] That's enough of that shit.


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[Assistant] You ain't turning my place into no goddamn arena, bear.


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[Assistant] The man told you ain't no dope unless you got the money, so make the best of that. Lenny stepped up.


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[Assistant] He was tall, thin, with long hair that at one time had been a process. He pulled on Bear's arm. He knew there was no win for them there. Also, he didn't want to be denied entry into Porky's house. It was not fear that made them back up.


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[Assistant] We don't want no trouble, Porky.


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[Assistant] The only favor I can do for you is to sell you a ten dollar pack today. Porky replied coldly, Every dope fiend that comes through my door spends money with me. But I sure give him what he wants to buy.


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[Assistant] I'd say if you ain't got enough money, you best pull what you got together and let that hold you. I ain't got but $5, Teddy said quickly. He wiped his nose on the back of his hand. Bear went into his own pocket, still grumbling. He pulled out a $5 bill and gave it to his partner. All three of the men stared angrily at Porky. It was just a matter of allowing them some time. Porky knew that they could be out in the streets stealing.


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[Assistant] And her arm brushed a glass of water off the arm rest of the couch.


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[Assistant] She called as she noticed the young, chubby girl sitting at the kitchen table nodding. Bring a broom out of the kitchen, honey, and clean some of this mess up.


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[Assistant] Let me get three or four dollars from you until we get back, he asked.


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[Assistant] She jerked her arm loose, then snarled over her shoulder, why aren't you ask that white bitch you supposed to have for some money?


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[Assistant] That bitch, Lenny said as he turned toward Porky. We got sixteen dollars altogether.


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[Assistant] He could remember when people like Porky used to bend over backwards to be his friend.


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[Assistant] Promising young pimp with a stable of four whores and a Cadillac. Smokey made her way into the bedroom without comment.


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[Assistant] She wondered idly what kind of fun Porky got out of playing with his customers. She knew they were worth the four dollars, because all three of them were thieves.


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[Assistant] The dog tried to escape, but she brought the whip down on his face before it could turn away. You black son of a bitch! she cursed.


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[Assistant] Not moving, trying to appear a groveling lap dog. Smokey tossed the whip on the bed and got some dope out of one of the coat pockets. She walked over to the bed and began to make up the packages. When she glanced up at the dogs, both of them were staring at her. She reached for the whip and both of them started to cringe. Just as long as you bastards know your place, she mumbled. But as she said it, she realized that the dogs were becoming a problem.