Lester
Shares His Discovery
He
went first to those who seemed to
be already looking in that direction,
the metaphysical groups. Looking in
the newspaper, he found weekly meetings
listed for
the various groups in New York City
and began to attend them and make
friends.
After
the three-month period, I attended
a metaphysical group just two short
blocks
away, Dr. Schaefer's group. He would
call the students up to the front
and ask
them to give a talk, The first time
he called on me, I told him I
didn't
want to go up, so he by-passed me.
And
then, after he stopped asking me,
I realized it was silly. The only
reason I
wasn't speaking was that the old tendencies
remained, but the effectiveness
of them
was totally gone. The compulsiveness
was done away with and even though
the tendency
remained, it was like a burnt rope.
If you try to pickup a burnt
rope,
it just falls apart. It looks like
a rope, seems to be a rope, but it
has no
strength.
Seeing
that, I volunteered to go up and give
a talk. First time in my life!
Here I
am, up in front of a group of about
sixty people. When I got up there,
I was
surprised that I wasn't nervous. I
was looking at them, they were looking
at me.
And as I was talking, I had a second
thing going on in the background,
"Gee!"
I kept thinking. "This is easy.
I never knew it was this easy!"
And
that was my first experience in my
life of getting up in front of a group
and talking.
Lester
also began to read books on metaphysical
subjects and was pleased to
find that
the things he had experienced had
also been experienced by others. In
fact,
there was quite a body of available
literature on the subject.
He
often found himself the center of
attention with his new friends, because
they had
not met anyone before with such a
depth of personal experience of what
they were
seeking for themselves. They found
him very easy to talk to and were
eager
to hear how he had achieved his state
of personal peace. It was difficult
for him
to put the actual process into words
but he found that in talking to
people
on a deeply personal level, he would
find the right thing to say to help
them achieve
some relief from their pent-up emotional
blocks.
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