A Record of Meetings held by P.D. Ouspensky - HolyBooks.com

supplied in lectures. For this reason I feel that it would be anadvantage to attend lectures more frequently than once a week.MR. O. I quite agree with you, but at present there are six groups andonly four evenings, so that many people cannot come even once everyweek. We shall have a bigger house next year, and then it will bepossible to come more often.MR. B. I realize, however, that, apart from the difficulty of arrangingthis, the content of each lecture is too vast to be completely apprehendedby those who attend, even during the period available betweenlectures. Possibly, therefore, it would be more advantageous for abeginner to be able to discuss the lectures as they occur with otherswho are also hearing them for the first time?MR. O. Yes, quite true, but again we cannot offer you space for that. Butit is on the way to being organized, and I will speak again later about this.MISS T . We are not all in the same state and each of our minds isdifferent, so that perception varies with the individual. For this reasonsome of us could probably help others to assimilate more completelywhat has been said at each lecture.MR. O. Quite right and quite necessary, but generally discussion is alittle later. All groups have to discuss things at a certain time.MR. B. Is such discussion recommended? If so, would it be possible toarrange such discussion?MR. O. Yes, as I have just said, you will be told about that. It will bearranged and organized.MR. B. Is there any essential difference between imagining and associativethinking? Is associative thinking also a bad habit?MR. O. Yes, there is associative thinking which goes quite by itself,and imagining in which you give at least the original shock to start it.Associative thinking you can be quite indifferent to.MRS. L. Are what we term 'natural laws' false deductions arising out ofour wrong conception of time and space?MR. O. What do you mean by 'natural laws'?MRS. L. I meant, really, the laws from which you said we could freeourselves. The law of cause and effect as we see it. ... The law ofgravity, the law of the changing seasons.MR. O. Gravity depends on the point of view. It may not be a falsededuction. Seasons are not a law, just pure observation. In a sense itmay be, but it depends on which scale we are speaking. All that we call