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

This brings us to influences. Influence A is just influence of theworld. Influence B is that which comes from schools. These ideas aregenerally distorted, but what one really gets of value from influence Bis the realization that there must be schools. C influence begins themoment one meets schools. With C influence there can be no distortion,or it would not be C influence. B influence does not come direct, but Cinfluence always comes direct. If you want to know more, findexamples and ask questions. Often C influence may be mixed with Binfluence.MR. B. I spoke of the inner conte nt of these influences. If a person isreceiving A influence and observes A influence, as we learn it in thissystem, examining it in the business of life. . . .MR. O. Under influence A may be anything which attracts you in theworld. If there is only influence A in one's life there is no school.MR. B. I wondered if possibility and impossibility were words referringto degrees of being?MR. O. I don't see the way to come to possibility or no possibility.Man lives under influence A, but may come under influence B.Influence C can only come to somebody who has acquired or absorbedas much influence B as he could.Many things can be got from influence B in a religious and philosophicalway. It may contain big ideas which we miss, and which maybe influence C. In this way we get an idea of what truth may be.MRS. B. Is it impossible for a dead person to receive influence B?MR. O. We don't speak about the psychology of dead people.MR. B. Are possibilities and impossibilities related to being?MR. O. Don't bring impossibility into discussion. It is only a word,and can just confuse the issue. We must understand that we are onlyliving under A and B influences, and the possibility of touching Cinfluence depends on contact with B influence. B influence prepares uswith ideas and emotions which originally came from schools. We meetmany people in the world, who are intelligent people, but who simplycannot do this work. They entirely miss the idea of self-remembering.They do not realize that it is the one thing European psychology andphilosophy entirely missed. They always refuse to accept it as a newidea which they never heard before.MRS. K. Does self-remembering during a negative emotion help todiminish it?