| To get into the unitive world underneath, underlying, and supporting the
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| everyday practical world
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| There have to be certain alterations in one’s common sense
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| There are certain ideas and beyond these ideas, certain feelings that are
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| difficult to get across not because they’re intellectually complicated not at
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| all because of that
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| But because they’re unfamiliar
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| They’re strange
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| We haven’t been brought up to accommodate them
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| In exactly the same way that, in past times, people knew that the planets were
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| supported in the sky because they were embedded in spheres of crystal
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| And if they weren’t embedded in spheres of crystal and, of course,
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| you could see them, because you could see through them they would fall down on
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| the Earth
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| And now, when astronomers finally suggested that there were no crystal spheres
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| People felt unbelievably insecure. |
| See?
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| They had a terrible time assimilating this idea
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| Now, do you see what it involves to assimilate a really new idea?
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| You have to do quite a flip
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| For example, there are some people whose number systems only account four
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| quantities: one, two, three, many
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| So they don’t have any concept of four corners to a table — see,
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| a table has many corners
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| And a pile of pebbles is, in that sense, equivalent in many-ness to the four
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| corners of the table
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| Now, they have difficulty, you see, in beginning to assimilate the idea of
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| counting through, and numbering all those corners or all those pebbles
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| But we’ve done that
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| And so to us that is perfectly simple
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| But imagine the kind of mentality, the kind of person, to whom that is not
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| simple at all
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| Now, in exactly the same way, there is, here what I’m trying to explain,
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| a new idea that most people don’t assimilate, and that is the idea of the
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| total interdependence of everything in the world |