We personalize our minds so much. We get very, very, very, very, very, very, serious about what we think; it’s such a joke. We have no idea of the value of our intelligence unless we bond with others. It’s out of our bonding that our real intelligence is released. Out of understanding the mechanics of how we meet and how we bond together, you can see that there are rules in the game. If we play the mechanical rules, the verbal gunslingers will have their proper role. They will be the ones that are called upon to express those things. They’re the rightful expresser of those things. They’re intended for us to rely on them.

Where would we be without the 11.4, the great teachers? We rely on them for everything from the mundane to the obscure. We cannot trust them when they are full of anxiety, and we don’t listen to them when they’re trying to tell us. Only when we begin to appreciate them, and you can only appreciate people through their design. It’s like seeing how nice your formulas can be. In the moment you recognize their capacity, that’s the moment you can invite them to show you how significant their contribution can be to understand how things should be organized, to recognize what truly is stimulating, to recognize truly what we need to learn, and to be able to have what’s new explained to us. This is a marvelous capacity of mind, and so much of it is lost.

How many times verbal gunslingers come up to me and they start talking. They just come up to me and start talking. I truly do not listen to them. Sometimes I try to make an effort. It doesn’t work. It’s not that I’m not interested in what they have to say; it’s not that I don’t care about them. It’s clear to me the moment they start with me that I’m not really listening to them. I haven’t asked for anything from them.

Now, of course, I get caught in my role as a teacher, so I end up in situations where by the very formula of being a teacher, I have people who come up to me, my students, Generators who come up to me and Projectors who come up to me. And of course, yeah, this is the whole thing about all of us recognizing the game.

There’s a part of me, and it’s unfortunate that I’m not a humanitarian; one of you tribal huggie-wuggies will have to do this in the future. But if it were my nature I would have everybody’s chart in front of me somewhere on a sheet of paper, and I would recognize the need that certain students would have to be dealt with just during the course of a program like this, because everybody goes through different things.

For me to take the time and go up to the Generators and say, “Is everything okay?” and “How you doing?” and blah, blah, blah. And go up to the Projectors and invite them to make their comments, and see if the Reflectors aren’t too disappointed in things, and of course that would be the best way of dealing with that mechanically.

The more we understand the rules, then the more we can set out the rules between each other. We are the ones that carry the torch of this knowledge. For us to be able to deal with each other here in these gatherings that we’ve had, this is one of those real opportunities to play out the mechanics and to have the experiment with those that support it around you, and see how all that works.

But it’s essential to recognize that if you’re a verbal gunslinger, you’re not going to get the respect that you deserve. It’s not about whether you’re right or wrong, okay? It’s not about that. You see the gift isn’t about coming up with right or wrong things to say, the gift is being able to say them at all. Please understand that.

It’s essential for us to hear all of the opinions, and it’s essential for us to get as many of the ideas as possible. In other words, we’re open to all of that, and we need them. We need them for our very business of being a duality, of playing around with comparison, of being able to compare one to the other. This is how we codify our history, and this is how we substantiate our facts. But of course, it’s not about doing.

Whether something is a valid experience is something that you’re only going to know when you live it out, no matter how many people have had it before you and have written about it. And no matter what the theory says, and no matter what the opinion is, and no matter what the facts are, if you don’t experiment with it yourself, you can never truly accept it absolutely. It takes the body, it takes the motors, it takes the real authority, it takes the nature of your Type to have things happen.

Disconnect from giving your mind authority. Watch the anxiety go away. Watch the medicine cabinet lose its Excedrins and Tylenols, because that’s really what it’s all about: getting rid of that anxiety. And the other thing is that the benefit that it brings to your eyes, to your ability to see more clearly. You know, the cliché we have about the nature of emotions blinding.

~ Ra Uru Hu