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Sufi teaching stories

A Sufi teaching story called "Bread and Jewels" 58, p. 113 illustrates this nicely ... [Pg.39]

Because of the power over physical reality given them by their consensus reality state of consciousness, adults are the most free yet, because they are the most thoroughly indoctrinated in consensus reality, they are the most bound. They receive many rewards for participating in the consensus reality in an acceptable way, and they have an enormous number of external and internalized prohibitions that keep them from thinking and experiencing in ways not approved by the consensus reality. The Sufi teaching story, "Bayazid and the Selfish Man" 58 p. 180, shows how difficult it is for an adult to free himself from the power of ordinary consciousness and consensus reality, even when he believes he wants to ... [Pg.49]

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