In Search of the Miraculous

in groups. Mirrors. Exchange of observations. General and individual

conditions. Rules. "Chief fault." Realization of one's own nothingness. Danger of imitative work. "Barriers." Truth and falsehood. Sincerity with oneself.

Efforts. Accumulators. The big accumulator. Intellectual and emotional work.

Necessity for feeling. Possibility of understanding through feeling what cannot

be understood through the mind. The emotional center is a more subtle

apparatus than the intellectual center. Explanation of yawning in connection

with accumulators. Role and significance of laughter in life. Absence of

laughter in higher centers.

CHAPTER XII

Work in groups becomes more intensive. Each man's limited "repertoire of

roles." The choice between work on oneself and a "quiet life."' Difficulties of obedience. The place of "tasks." G. gives a definite task. Reaction of friendsto the ideas. The system brings out the best or the worst in people. What

people can come to the work? Preparation. Disappointment is necessary.

Question with which a man aches. Revaluation of friends. A talk about types.

G. gives a further task. Attempts to relate the story of one's life. Intonations.

"Essence" and "personality." Sincerity. A bad mood. G. promises to answer any question. "Eternal Recurrence." An experiment on separating personalityfrom essence. A talk about sex. The role of sex as the principal motive force

of all mechanicalness. Sex as the chief possibility of liberation. New birth.

Transmutation of sex energy. Abuses of sex. Is abstinence useful? Right work

of centers. A permanent center of gravity.

CHAPTER XIII

Intensity of inner work. Preparation for "facts." A visit to Finland. The "miracle"

begins. Mental "conversations" with G. '"You are not asleep." Seeing

"sleeping people." Impossibility of investigating higher phenomena by ordinary means. A changed outlook on "methods of action." "Chief feature." G. definespeople's chief feature. Reorganization of the group. Those who leave the

work. Sitting between two stools. Difficulty of coming back. G.'s apartment.

Reactions to silence. "Seeing lies." A demonstration. How to awake? How to

create the emotional state necessary? Three ways. The necessity of sacrifice.

"Sacrificing one's suffering." Expanded table of hydrogens. A "moving

diagram." A new discovery. "We have very little time."

CHAPTER XIV

Difficulty of conveying "objective truths" in ordinary language. Objective and subjective knowledge. Unity in diversity. Transmission of objective knowledge.