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Absolutely thought alone
can completely change the body.
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Most people don't affect reality
in a consistent, substantial way...
:36:08
because they don't
believe they can.
:36:12
They write an intention...
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and then they erase it,
because they think that's silly--
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I mean-- I can't do that. And then they
write it again, and then they erase it.
:36:22
So time average,
it's a very small effect.
:36:25
And it really comes down to the fact that
they believe they can't do it.
:36:30
If you accept with every
rudiment of your being...
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that you will walk on water,
will it happen?
:36:36
Yes, it will.
:36:38
But you know, it's, uh--
it's like positive thinking.
:36:41
It's a wonderful idea,
positive thinking...
:36:44
but what it usually means is that I have
a little smear of positive thinking...
:36:50
covering a whole mass
of negative thinking.
:36:54
So thinking positive is
not really thinking positive.
:36:57
It's just disguising the negative thinking
that we have.
:37:00
When we think of things, then we make
the reality more concrete than it is...
:37:05
and that's why we become stuck.
:37:08
We become stuck
in the sameness of reality.
:37:10
Because if reality is concrete, obviously,
I am insignificant. I cannot really change it.
:37:14
But if reality is my possibility--
possibility of consciousness itself--
:37:20
then immediately comes the question
of how can I change it?
:37:24
How can I make it better?
How can I make it happier?
:37:26
You see how we are extending
the image of ourselves?
:37:30
In the old thinking,
I cannot change anything...
:37:33
because I don't have
any role at all in reality.
:37:37
Reality is already there. It's material
objects moving in their own way...
:37:41
from deterministic laws...
:37:43
and mathematics determines
what they will do in a given situation.
:37:48
I, the experiencer,
have no role at all.
:37:52
In the new view, yes,
mathematics can give us something.
:37:55
It gives us the possibilities
that all these movements can assume.