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Jerry Stocking
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66 utterances · click to jump
00:03
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The more tightly you hold to what seems so important back here, the more you suffer and the harder a life you have.
00:13
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The more you let go, the easier it gets over here. I offer you an alternative, which is nothing.
00:26
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Nothing is always full and always empty. Now if anything comes along and you're in this model, you have to say if you're a man, have to say, that's mine, because all of men are kind of idiots, and they have to keep accumulating no matter what, even if they don't want it. If you're a woman, you have to kind of make a decision whether or not you want it, which the decision alone is a relative burden. But you have to decide if you're going to add this into who you are. So what you end up doing in this place is when something comes along, you have to decide if it goes in there or not. So you have to, among all above all things, be in control of what gets in there. But you also have to be control in control of the way that things these things relate that are already in there.
01:23
S0
Given that the universe is whole, if you're gonna be in control, you really have to be in control of everything. You don't just get get to be in control of a few things. You have to be in control of everything, which is a really big job. And not only that, you constantly get in her way because she's busy controlling, and you're busy controlling.
01:49
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And this is the root of how people relate. Now wait a minute. Is this under my control or your control? Who's controlling this here? So we set up the hierarchies that we do of who's the boss and who's the police and who's the all of this in order to play in this accumulation craziness.
02:08
S0
So when something comes along to this person, anything that comes along is an offering to get rid of something else. By the way, how this person normally is, you can see it all over the streets of Manhattan, you can even sometimes see it as the people are driving along talking to themselves in Houston, they tend to get full
02:31
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so that they just plain out can't fit anything else.
02:37
S0
This is all illusion, by the way. Is that like when somebody's really stressed out on a freeway and can't fake anymore? You bet. You bet. And all of a sudden, the person driving by who cuts them off looks like their ex wife rather than their grandmother that they love so much, and they happen to have a gun in there. And The rest is history. The rest is history. It's in the papers. Yes? And you I mean, that's the kind of stuff they put in the papers, isn't it? And something else gets added. Yeah. Yeah. And the rest of you who have added so much get to read about somebody else who added just a little too much, and you get to be so proud because you have this tiny little area left for vacation.
03:20
S0
And you're gonna rush off to The Bahamas because you've heard that in The Bahamas, they have two drinks for the price of one, and that you can see, fill that up too. So this is the falling apart, and this is the filling up. This is the nothing. When something comes along here to this part, it's more it's a tease. It says you can't have this either.
03:46
S0
You can't have this either because you're falling apart. You can't have it. Forget about it. You know? Oh, I can't have it. And what else do I lose? This is where you prescribe Prozac and send them on their way for ten years of therapy or something like that. I don't know if you know how many people are in Prozac in this country, particularly the women who are in the falling apart phase. The men can stay over here longer than
04:18
S0
I don't know. I don't know how they do it.
04:23
S0
What happens in the nothing is something comes along and it finds its exact balance, which is just the right amount of nothing squeaks out, leaving the same amount of nothing in here. Mhmm. And it joins this little something,
04:47
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and they go off wherever they're going and dance for a while until they're all done and they've both petered out and they don't exist anymore.
04:59
S0
So any something that comes along meets its balance, this is like matter and antimatter, and they go out and disappear. And you're left with just the same amount of nothing.
05:13
S0
So here's a test, because I've not been to Houston before. Which one of these seems easier? Any idea?
05:26
S0
Number two. Oh my god.
05:33
S0
So what we do in this course, this is the illusion conclusion course, what we offer you is an opportunity to begin taking this stuff apart or to continue the process that you may have already begun taking this stuff apart. It may look at certain points while this is going on like you're losing something, like your mind
06:00
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or something more important than that or more real than that.
06:06
S0
And that's probably one case where the appearance is accurate because you probably are losing something. But nobody can take away from you what you need, so you don't need to worry about it. If you can lose it, you don't need it.
06:26
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So it's we're here to find out what you can lose. As you lose, you'll open more room. In other words, moving from this over to this and then by about day four we will get over to this. And this will not be done by heart wrenching trauma, it will be done much more by laughter.
06:50
S0
You can't get here through pain very readily, I don't think. That's good to know. Yeah.
07:02
S0
So we're gonna move like that. A few rules about the course. I request that you don't break any laws of the state of Texas.
07:19
S0
That is. That's it. Yeah. I think that's it.
07:25
S0
I invite you to ask questions at any point in time about anything.
07:31
S0
This there is not a I was telling Pat last night, we have no idea what's gonna happen because you guys are the ones who decide what's gonna happen here. Although it will typically not look like you're deciding it, but you're deciding it. Most likely I'm reading something underneath what you're currently able to perceive which tells us where to go and how to go. And you'll learn to perceive that throughout the course.
08:00
S0
It is not unusual, is it Jeff, who's attended the course before, to think even for several days that you aren't getting it, that it doesn't make any sense, that it's all going over your head, that it's too fast. Is that about fit your experience in May in Atlanta? Yes.
08:23
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And then on the fifth day of the course, he showed up as profoundly intelligent. Didn't you? Admit it. Admit it in front of friends, Jeff.
08:38
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Still shy,
08:42
S0
but he did.
08:46
S0
Over here in the accumulation phase, it's about what you know. It's about what you have. It's about all of that stuff.
08:56
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That's not what it is over here. So watch out. If you don't understand, you're probably right with the course. Take your hand, put it somewhere near around here, and lift it a couple inches off of your leg.
09:19
S0
We have a skilled group here. That's the coordination of about a 160 muscles. If you can do that, can do every exercise I'm going to give you. Where
09:30
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we deal is we deal with the patterns that come around in you every eight to twelve seconds. So we don't need to go back to find them because they're here today.
09:43
S0
We didn't don't need to go back to your past lives or to your childhood. We all pretty much had amateur parents. Yes? Yeah. They did the best they could. Now let's find out what patterns you got, and let's find out how they play today. That's what we'll do.
10:06
S0
So we doesn't have to run backwards to move forwards, and we aren't going to move forward either. We're going to find out where we are now.
10:17
S0
As far as I can tell, there's only one thing that a human being can't have,
10:25
S0
and that's control. Everything else you get, if you want it, if you want it, whatever. The only thing you can't have is control. So like prohibition,
10:39
S0
what do you want? Control. Since you can't have it. Yeah. Of everything all the time.
10:46
S0
Okay. But you said you can't have control of everything. You have control of individual things, don't you? No. No? No. You don't have control of anything. What I'm suggesting to you is since everything is really the same, and many of you at least theoretically know this. Yes? Is that true? Or this is yes, this is no. We're all one. Since we're all one, if you control one thing, have to control everything. It becomes very, very difficult.
11:18
S0
And you will end up with battles for who's in control of what,
11:24
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destined to happen. And my suggestion to you and throughout the week, you'll get it in a deeper and deeper level is that you're never in control of anything and that it may look like you are to you. That's illusion.
11:40
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And you may have to have it look like it even if it doesn't look like it and that's deeper illusion.
11:49
S0
Delusion.
11:53
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And illusion always leads to delusion sooner or later. And then you end up in your own little world where you are sure that you can control everything. But we'll do more damage to that as we go. And one of the things you'll discover is that you're tremendously more powerful than you thought you were when you start giving up control
12:16
S0
and that you never have to waste any time trying to figure out if you're in control or not
12:23
S0
because you can just determine philosophically that you're not, and then the game's over. And then you get to start playing. Any other questions? If we can't control everything, why do we always want things to go a certain way?
12:43
S0
As far as I can tell, this this starts to come out pretty simple.
12:50
S0
There's only one human upset,
12:54
S0
and that is the loss of the present. And as soon as you lose the present, you have to try and determine what's going to happen. You have to try and alter what's going to happen. You have to try and influence what's going to happen. Anyone who's in the present doesn't do that because in the present, you're just there.
13:18
S0
And if you're jumping out to the future, you have to try and use the past to figure out how to make the future better or worse or different or whatever than it is. That is just too hard a work.
13:32
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The future and the past are both entirely illusion. Try doing a day with no future
13:40
S0
and find out what happens. Why do we do that? Because if we're not in the present, then we've got to take care of what's going to happen. It's nuts. It makes you crazy.
13:53
S0
You will have numerous experiences during this week of the present and you will discover that in the present everything is perfect. It's already all taken care of. That doesn't mean that you have to sit there cross legged,
14:08
S0
breathing deeply with your fingers like this. It doesn't mean that at all. It means that now everything becomes possible for you instead of some little isolated track that you were trying to lay down. It means you don't spend your time pounding in the the stakes into the railroad ties to lay that track. Any track you lay, you have to maintain.
14:37
S0
It means that you don't have any idea where you're going until it happens. We just spent from March till a week ago trying to find a house to live in. We've just moved south down to Asheville, looking all around Asheville for houses.
14:56
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Couldn't find a house. I mean, they had houses, but not our house. Last Saturday morning, we drove down to Clarksville, which is in Northern Georgia, as in last train too. Mhmm. And
15:11
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a realtor who we'd never met before drives us out and shows us our house. And that day, we put in an offer, and within the next couple days, it all got ironed out. I should have known better than to spend from March till some other time looking at this.
15:29
S0
I don't know. I think I enjoyed that too. I recall many years ago, I used to play fairly aggressive tennis. Then I was in a tournament, and my mother came to watch me.
15:44
S0
I got knocked out in the semifinals, and she said, boy, you sure didn't win, but I don't have to wonder who had the best time there.
15:58
S0
If you're enjoying hitting every ball, the score is kind of irrelevant and need to control why would I wanna control where my opponent hit it next? That would make it not a game anymore, wouldn't it? I wanna find out where he hits it or she hits it next. And I want to find out just in time so that I can manage to get over there and find out what to do with it. So the first two days of this course, Saturday and Sunday, we will explore
16:30
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your illusion and ways to take it apart underneath it at very subtle levels, how to take it apart. By Tuesday of the course, we'll be ready to deal with language, which is one of the ways that people cause themselves an awful lot of problems. We'll explore language quite fully on Tuesday. Then by Friday and Saturday we just plain out play at the patterns that have been
17:03
S0
right down here as your foundation for life and you will not know who you are.
17:12
S0
That who you are will disappear and you'll be ready for it to go. If this is still all on top of it, you won't be ready for it to go because it looks like can't take this apart until you've taken some of this apart up above.
17:30
S0
So by Friday and Saturday, it's a
17:34
S0
party in which you're no longer holding on to who you thought you were And you find out that you're much more able and much more than that than anything you thought you were.
17:58
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And now proceed to beginning of your illusion conclusion course.