| The web of life
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| Let me try, from the first, to indicate the point that we’re aiming at
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| The point is this
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| That human consciousness is—at the same time as being a form of awareness,
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| and sensitivity, and understanding
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| It’s also a form of ignorance
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in
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| And because of this, it leaves out things that are terribly important
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| It leaves out things that would, if we did know them, allay our anxieties,
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| and fears, and horrors
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| And if we could extend our awareness, you see, to include those things that we
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| leave out, we would have a deep interior peace
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| Because we would all know the one thing that you mustn’t know
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in
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| You know, according to the rules of our particular social game
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| The one thing you mustn’t know; |
| that’s really not allowed
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| That is the lowdown on life and that the lowdown, on the one hand,
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| means the real dirt on things
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| But the lowdown is also what is profound, what is mysterious, what is in the
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| depths
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| And the something left out
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| And our everyday consciousness
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| Screens this out in the same way that, when you say you have weaving
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| You have say, on this rug here in front of us, when the black finishes here,
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| the black threads will go underneath, and then appear again over here,
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| then they’ll go underneath the white and they’ll appear again over here,
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| you know?
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| So that the back will be the obverse pattern of the front
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| Now—the world is like that
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in
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| Our sense organs are selective
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| They pick out certain things; |
| they are receptive
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| For example, we have a small, small band of what you might call a spectrum of
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| light, of sound, of tactile sensation, and so on, to which the human organism
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| is sensitive
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| But we know that outside that small band there is a huge range of vibrations to
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| which we have built instruments that are sensitive
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| Things like cosmic rays, ultraviolet rays, gamma rays, hard x-rays, and so on
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| They’re all outside the band of our spectrum
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| And obviously, there are things that are outside the range of our instruments
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| We may build new instruments someday, which will evoke
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| Bring into our consciousness, other orders of vibration altogether, that,
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| as yet, we don’t know about them
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| So you could imagine, you see, the universe as a vast, vast system of vibrations
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| And has infinite possibilities
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in
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| The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have
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| Leaves out — more
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| Than it takes in |