Now an almost mystical phenomenon is likely to take place.

It will be found that the problem in the physical universe, that had worried the pc half to death and wrecked his life, s uddenly seems to have ceased to exist. In other words the ultimate handling of this problem was to rai se the pc's ability to confront it

Man's difficulties are his piled-up incidents of flinching, avoiding, and coward ly retreating. To start having real difficulties in life all you have to do is to run away from your problems and the business of living. After that, unsolvable problems will take over your life. Wh en people do not confront life they will build up their difficulties. They simply sit and look at each other without saying or doing anything for some hours. Student must not speak, blink nervously, move around or move, laugh or smile or be embarrassed or get sleepy o r drowsy. Often you will see the student confront with a body part, like his face, nose, chest etc. rather than just sit and look relaxedly at the coach. He can fall into using a system of confronting rather than just BE present. Confronting means just that. You don't DO anything. The whole action is to accustom an auditor to BEING PRESENT, 1 meter in front of a preclear without apologizing or moving a round or defending self. Confronting with a body part can cause somatics in that body part. The solution is to just carry on and confront and be present. The emphasis is first and foremost to get the student to confront the person opp osite him (the coach). Then later in the TR, coach can iron out physical manifestations, twitches, blin ks, etc. Student auditor passes when he can be present, confronting, and has

The ability TO THINK has to do with the ability to differentiate. Occupies a dif ferent unit of space. Unthinkingness has to do with a lack of ability to differentiate and a COMPULSIO N to identify unlike things with each other as though they were not only like thin gs but same thing. Occupies a different unit of space. 1. Try and reason with the reactive mind, go Ahead just try your best. The react ive mind is DESIGNED to DERANGE. 1.The highest activity is playing a game. When one is high-toned, he knows that it is a GAME.

1a.The GREATEST ability of THOUGHT is DIFFERENTIATION. 1a. There is freedom amongst barriers. If the barriers are known and the freedom s are known there can be life, living, happiness: A GAME. 3c. To have difficulties in life, all it is necessary to do is to start running away from the business of livingness. Aft er that, problems of unsolvable magnitude are assured. 4. A man who is willing to ACCEPT restrictions and barriers, and is NOT AFRAID o f them, is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictionS and barrierS ( i.e cannot control the barriers) will usually be trapped. 4a. If one seeks to get rid of something continually, one admits continually tha t he cannot confront it and thus everyone went down hill. Life became a dwindling spiral of more things we could not confront. 4b. NOBODY else can do ANYTHING to you, but YOU.That is a horrible state of affa irs. YOU can do something to you, but it requires YOUR postulate, your agreement or y our disagreement, before anything can happen to you. People have to agree to be ill; they have to agree to be stupid; 4c. An individual HAS to POSTULATE into existence his own aberration, his own fl inch, his own stupidity, his own lack of confidence, and his own bad luck. 5a.The whole trick of somebody telling you it s all bad over there is contained in the fact that he is trying to keep you from CONFRONTING something and thus make you retreat from life. 5b. If ever once a man were to realize with accuracy what he was, if he were to realize what other people sought to make him, if he could attain this knowledge with gre at certainty,there are no chains strong enough to prevent his escaping; for such would be his astonishment that he would brave anything to become something bett er than what he had beheld in his own heart. 1. Certainty/Uncertainty: Such a state can be remedied. One merely causes the in dividual to observe in terms of the three universes. own,mest, others.