The web of life.
 Let me try from the first to indicate the point that we're aiming at.
 The point is this, that human consciousness is at the same time as being a form of awareness
 and sensitivity and understanding, it's also a form of ignorance.
 The ordinary everyday consciousness that we have leaves out more than it takes in.
 And because of this, it leaves out things that are terribly important.
 It leaves out things that would, if we did know them, allay our anxieties and fears and
 horrors.
 And if we could extend our awareness, you see, to include those things that we leave
 out, we would have a deep interior peace.
 Because we would all know the one thing that you mustn't know, you know, according to the
 rules of our particular social game.
 The one thing you mustn't know, that's really not allowed, that is the lowdown on life.
 And the lowdown on the one hand means the real dirt on things, but the lowdown is also
 what is profound, what is mysterious, what is in the depths, and the something left out.
 And our everyday consciousness screens this out in the same way that when you say you
 have weaving, you have, say, on this rug here in front of us, when the black finishes here,
 the black threads will go underneath and then appear again over here, then they'll go underneath
 the white and then they'll appear again over here, you know?
 So that the back will be the obverse pattern of the front.
 Now the world is like that.
 Our sense organs are selective.
 They pick out certain things, they're receptive.
 For example, we have a small, small band of what you might call a spectrum of light, of
 sound, of tactile sensation and so on, to which the human organism is sensitive.
 But we know that outside that small band there is a huge range of vibrations to which we
 have built instruments that are sensitive.
 Things like cosmic rays, ultraviolet rays, gamma rays, hard X-rays, and so on.
 They're all outside the band of our spectrum.
 And obviously there are things that are outside the range of our instruments.
 We may build new instruments someday which will evoke, bring into our consciousness other
 orders of vibration altogether, but as yet we don't know about them.
 So you could imagine, you see, the universe is a vast, vast system of vibrations and has
 infinite possibilities.
 All these vibrations, you know, are like the strings on a harp.
 And the harps that the angels are supposed to play in heaven are really this huge possibility.
 See when you play the harp, you select strings.
 You don't play all the strings.
 It's stupid to just run your finger along the whole edge of the harp, back and forth,
 back and forth, and go...
 What you do is you pick out with your fingers, select just like on the piano, you don't go
 brrrrmp, you pick out certain notes and these make the patterns.
 But at the same time as you pick out, you reject what you don't pick out.
 But it's all there constituting a fundamental continuity, the kind of continuity of the
 thread as they go up to the back of the woven material and make up the obverse of the pattern
 that's on the front.
 Now the question that is absolutely basic for all human beings is, what have you left
 out, you see?
 You are focused on certain things that constitute what you call everyday reality.
 Look, you single out people and you see them sitting, sitting, sitting all around and you
 know they're things that are really there.
 And then behind the people are the houses or whatever we live in and the earth and behind
 all that the sky and so on.
 But we see the world as a collection of rather disjointed events and things.
 And I might say to you as you came in here today, now my goodness, you all forgot something.
 What did you forget?
 And you think, my goodness, did I put my pants on?
 Did I wear a sweater?
 Did I put my glasses and my hair on or my wig or whatever?
 And no, no, it's none of that.
 Something you've forgotten.
 See, everybody's forgotten something.
 You left it out.
 You just missed it, see?
 And so I can bring this out, what you've forgotten, if I ask you, who are you?
 Well you say I'm Paul Jones or whatever your name happens to be.
 I say, oh no, no, no, no, don't give me that stuff.
 Who are you really?
 And you think, whoa, of course I'm just me.
 No, don't give me that.
 I don't want to hear all that nonsense.
 You're playing a trick on me.
 Really, deep down, who are you?
 I don't know.
 Well, that's the thing to find out.
 That's the thing that's been forgotten, see?
 That's the underside of the tapestry, the thing that's been left out.
 What we are carefully taught to ignore is that every one of us, fundamentally, deep,
 deep inside, let's put it that way, is an act of, a function of, a performance of, a
 manifestation of the works.
 The whole blinking cosmos, with all its galaxies, and forever and ever and ever whatever it
 is beyond that, what you might call God in the Western tradition, or Brahman in Hindu
 philosophy, or Tao in Chinese, every one of us is really that, but we are pretending we
 aren't.
 And we are pretending with tremendous skill and deception.
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