Recently I was sitting with a group of people who spent a great deal of time discussing E.S.P. and related subjects. All were dwelling on outer things such as the pyramids, political issues, astronomy, etc.

One man “stood out” because he was having difficulty in several areas of his life. I had given this man some of my lessons so I asked him if he was applying then in the solving of his problems. “I have been too busy and my wife is opposed to my using them”, he said. "Has she read them?” I asked. “No, she wants nothing to do with them.”

I spoke to the group. "With this man’s permission I would like to teach you all something tonight.” The man gave his permission.

This man, as most of us, does not yet understand the total but is too concerned with trying to make certain parts of himself the total and thus we have confusion and lack of fulfillment. He must take into account that we are actually TWO SELVES - an outer self and an inner self. The combining of the two makes the “total”. There is too much emphasis on the outer self which is the self that eats, sleeps, adds, subtracts, allows others to influence our thinking, and does an awfully lot of manipulation. The inner self then, of course, goes "begging." To this man I say this. You declare that everything will work out. You say you have a positive attitude, yet I sense in your very saying of these things there is a doubt within you. You do not sound convincing. Now I say this to you - and to the group. WHAT COMES FIRST IN YOUR THINKING, YOUR DESIRE TOWARD FULFILLMENT, YOUR ANSWER???? When man has learned that what he receives from his “inner self” is just as valid, in fact, more valid than the outer self. The outer self lives within limitations, doubt, other opinions, worry and frustration but the inner self KNOWS NOT OF THESE THINGS.

Man dislikes discipline… if he wants to take in a show, go to a dance, go off to the mountains he must realize that these are the things that come first in his life and there is no INNER DESIRE TOWARD FULFILLMENT AS I AM SPEAKING OF IT.

WHAT COMES FIRST?????????

I spoke to the young man. “I see that you lack self discipline… you do what you think you want to do and I am quite certain you pick things to do that will take your mind off your difficulties. I say this – EMPHATICALLY - if you DESIRE something so strongly that all else falls before it and you ACTUALLY LIVE WITHIN THE DESIRE with every breath you take and use the outer self as the instrument leading you to fruition and have no time, or inclination, to listen to other opinions, to only SPEAK of your belief, to allow no person be it wife, parent, priest, minister, boss or neighbor to influence you, you then would begin to understand what I am saying.”

If most of us were actually obsessed with a desire for a new automobile we would work, save, motivate our thinking and action toward the getting of the automobile. If you could but understand AND THEN ACT upon what I have been saying you would begin to live more abundantly IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE.

I have a passion for railroads. I was born with it. It is a part of my inner self. As a child I asked for a train every Christmas. I never received one. I spent hours looking at them in the stores. I acquainted myself with every facet of what made up a railroad. I KNEW the day would come when I had one of my own. THE DESIRE (OBSESSION) NEVER LEFT ME EVEN INTO ADULTHOOD The DESIRE was a PART OF MY INNER SELF.

A few Christmas's ago I received my model railroad - built entirely to scale. My son-in-law, his family and my family pooled their resources and the fellows made me a magnificent scenic railroad. It was a beautiful work of LOVE and my DESIRE (OBSESSION) was fulfilled at a time when I could really appreciate it. I could have purchased any model railroad I wanted but the way I received it was not at all the same as if I had simply bought it for myself. Think on this, please.

I have again given you a DEFINITE PSYCHIC PRINCIPLE -- How many will really understand it enough to do something with it?

When I gave this principal to the group and to the young man he said this to me. “Oh, but you are different, Jack. You seem to understand things that I never will.” And, again, the simplicity and the power within the lesson goes begging.

The acorn did not become a great oak in a day, a month, even a year…

Will the reader simply discuss, rationalize, explain, hash over the lesson or will it spark the DESIRE WITHIN so that it CAN and WILL BE FULFILLED????

And the last I heard the young man is still struggling and living within only the outer self and takes no time to ACTIVATE AN AWARENESS OF THS INNER SELF AND ITS DIRECTION…

Here, again, should be the total recognized as the sum of its parts, but is it????

God Love Ya

Jack