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Lester
Discovers Amazing Natural Powers
If that
were really true, he thought, then
he could tune in at any point he
chose.
If he were the whole comb, he could
tune in with any tooth at all.
He
thought of a friend in California,
wondered what he was doing at that
moment
and was immediately there in his friend's
living room. He could see the
room,
the people in it, his friend sitting
there talking to them. He picked up
the phone
and called. "I just want to check
something with you," he said.
"You are
in the living room and there are three
other people there...." He
went on
to describe in detail the room, the
people and what they had just been
talking
about. He heard a gasp from the other
end of the phone and asked if
what he
had described were true.
His
friend answered, "Yes, but how
the hell could you possibly know that?"
With
a laugh Lester said, "I'm right
there. Can't you see me?"
There
was a long
silence. He could feel panic and realized
with surprise that it was his
friend's
panic he was feeling. He felt as though
he were right inside the other
man, feeling
and thinking exactly as the other
one. It was a totally new experience,
and it suddenly came to him that he
was the other one... that he
was, in
fact, every other one ... because
his essence was the essence of all.
He
was sitting at the spine of the universal
comb. He had a new point of view
and could
see everything.
To
ease his friend's fear, he said, "Oh,
come on, you're kidding me, right?
When I
described those people and what everyone
said, you only told me that I
was right
to make a joke, didn't you? It wasn't
true, was it?"
He
could feel the panic subside as his
friend answered, ''Lester, you
son-of-a-gun,
are you trying to tell me you made
all that up?."
"Certainly
I made it up. What do you think I
am, some kind of a nut? It was
just a
joke."
"Well,
you really had me going there for
a while, because everything you said
was true,"
his friend was laughing now.
"Wow
what a fantastic coincidence,"
Lester said. "Well, I won't keep
you from your
company any longer. Give me a call
when you get to New York next time.
We'll
go to lunch together and have a good
laugh over this."
"Okay,
Les, be seeing you."
Lester
hung up realizing that he'd have to
be more careful in the future. He'd
forgotten
that people think in very narrow terms,
unable to accept anything outside
the usual.
Suddenly,
he remembered himself a few short
months ago. He would have thought
anyone
crazy who had tried to tell him something
like this. How rigid he had
been then,
how closed his mind had been, how
limited ... and now... he roared
with laughter
at the change.
When
I started my search, I was a very
convinced and absolute materialist.
The only
thing that was real to me was that
which I could see, feel and touch.
My world
was as solid as concrete. Then when
these revelations came to me that
the world
was just a result of my mind, that
matter had no intelligence, and that
our intelligence
and our thinking determined all matter
and everything about it;
when I saw that the solidity which
I formerly had was only a thought,
my nice,
solid, concrete foundation began to
crack. A lifetime of build-up began
to tumble
and my body shook and shook. I just
shook for days. I shook like a nervous
old person.
I
knew that the concrete view I'd had
of the world was never going to be
again.
But it didn't drop away gracefully
with ease. For days, I actually
shook,
until I think I shook the whole thing
loose.
Then
my view was just the opposite of what
it had been months previously-that
the real
and solid thing was not the physical
world, was not even my mind; but
it was
something which was much greater;
that my essence, the very Beingness
of me
was the reality and that it had no
limits, that it was eternal, and that
all those
former things that I used to see as
me, like my body and mind, were the
least
of me rather than the all of me. That
the All of me was my Beingness.
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