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Wednesday, January 20, 2021 7:40 a.m. The first inaugural address I ever listened to was John F. Kennedy’s. I was in D.C. for Jimmy Carter’s, in the crowd, listening. Two occasions of hope. All that idealism, all those good intentions, and you can hardly say they came to nothing, but they didn’t, because they couldn’t…

Guys, I already know that you’re going to be able to use Dirk’s reply to yesterday’s chat to clarify something that gets confused. But I wonder – well, anyway, let’s see. It is true, this is an opportunity for clarification, but the path from here to clarity may not be smooth. Quite a bit of…

I have a pretty good idea where you are going, if only from the words that have floated through my mind since our last conversation: prejudice, inability to see otherwise, obsession. Yes, because they will serve as windows on a phenomenon not easily observed directly. We have said that you must experience the world not…

I understand you to be concentrating on how we experience the world, specifically how the layer of feelings/perceptions colors how we see it. It occurred to me yesterday, a continual awareness of physical illness or debility would be an example of a factor that would be neither emotion nor thought but would heavily influence how…

I thought, last night, peculiarities as example. The things that make us different. But you may prefer to begin elsewhere. Considering your innate differences may serve; we’ll see how it goes. Considering prejudice and obsession worked well enough. The overall idea is to replace judgment with understanding. There are reasons why people see the world…

All right, friends. I thought yesterday, maybe Rage and Papa might be an illustrative topic. It could be. A wider example would be something like “personal characteristics as illustrations of the effects of the invisible layer of feeling between the ‘external’ world and you as you experience yourselves.” But we have no objection to using…

Let’s first underline the sense you got of the energetic layer being both within you and not within you, depending upon definition, because that may be very helpful. Perhaps envision a circle completely surrounded by a second circle. The smaller circle is the 3D self – “you” as you experience yourself. The larger circle is…

Guys, it occurred to me, we can learn more about the invisible influences on our lives by looking at the weaknesses and quirks we see in each other – and occasionally in ourselves – than by constructing theoretical models of how things work. Fixed ideas that distort perceptions, yes. Understand, in all this, our intent…

What are hope and fear but attitudes? They are ways of interpreting the situation. Each is what an individual, at any given time, perceives to be a reasonable response – perhaps the reasonable response – to whatever life is presenting at the moment or in general. They are the product, you see, of what the…

Maybe considering people’s quirks and prejudices would help illustrate the point. Or perhaps we have inadequately made the point that people see the world through filters that precede thought, and then they alter what they see and what they think by their values and decisions. If you once see that, you have seen the most…