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

I told you the story about one Yogi in some school in India whoworked for many years, and there was always one thing that hecouldn't do. At last he became disappointed, dispirited, left the schooland went away. Again, several years later, he found another school,and when he came there the first task they gave was exactly what hecouldn't do in the other school. He asked: 'How did you know?' andthey said: 'That is written on your face.'MR. W. If one was able to do so, and it was permitted, would it bevaluable to give up one's ordinary work and spend one's whole timeworking at Lyne, etc. for the system?MR. O. If they accept you at Lyne. It is not my business.MISS M . In answer to a recent question, Mr. O. said time has differentspeeds. If we could get into higher centres, would we find the speed oftime greater and on going back to lower centres would we be unableto understand what we had experienced on the higher level?MR. O. In answer to the last part of the question, yes, that is a definitefact. You come in contact with many things which you think youunderstand quite well at that time, and when you come to yourordinary mind you don't understand it at all, because it is very quick,and even in the elementary levels of higher emotional centre youalready come to some things you cannot explain later, and when youcome again to the higher emotional, you are astonished why youcouldn't remember; it looks so simple. When you come to normal stateagain, you don't remember.MR. C. What forces are responsible for tropisms?MR. O. It is necessary to define; we cannot just take a word becausethere are many different associations, and in every term, a scientificterm, or something like that, there are many affirmations and manynegations, so we cannot take the word without counting how manynegations and how many affirmations there are in this word.MR. C. Is there any mechanism in the body for integrating the memoriespresent in individual organs and structures? I was thinking of aphysical activity, like swimming or skating.MR. O. Moving centre, if that's what you mean.MR. P . Has the system any direct methods by which, under guidance,one could be put in touch with higher centres?MR. O. There is no difficulty at all to be put in contact with highercentres. The difficulty is to remember something or use it, and to do it