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SA62T3 - Is it possible to be free of influence?
Saanen, Switzerland - 26 July 1962
Public Talk 3

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Is it possible to be free of the insistent influence of propaganda, books and newspapers?

The unconscious must be approached negatively.

Negative choiceless awareness can totally break through the unconscious.

We have divided influence into moral and evil. Influence is influence, it is not good or bad.

Influence, like all pressure, perverts and distorts.

If we understand virtue rightly it releases an enormous vitality, strength. This energy is needed to bring about a complete transformation.

Authority is the psychological demand to be secure physiologically and psychologically.

To understand something the mind must be in a state of negation.

If you are not completely, totally alone you are not virtuous.

Alone means a mind that has understood influence and is not affected by it.

Questions from the audience followed the talk.