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      Life seems to be a do or die proposition.  Many people, when they are first exposed to This, find some of the things I have talked about, at first blush, to be harsh and uncaring.  I don't seem to worry enough about people's problems.  And indeed, they are right, but no one understands what problems are. Everything serves its purpose.  Looked at another way, what seems to be suffering is having your brain pinched by ignorance.  It's as if Life were a pie divided into three parts, but all you can see is two-thirds of it.  As far as you can tell by all ordinary means, that two-thirds is everything.  That is the principality of C and D.  That's everything you have been taught was right and wrong, everything that you perceive to be true and false.  But it creates, in an unrecognized manner, a brain pinch.  You are trying to perceive something that would be like a pie divided into three and, no matter what you do, you can only see two slices of it, and it makes you hurt.  It's like having a little brain pain.  But it comes out as, "I'm misunderstood, I want to do right and the gods won't allow me to see all the mystical things."  It's little brain aches.

     Everyone is wired up to believe that there is a raging conflict, within me and without.  But you do not ever notice that the conflict not only is never ending, but there is no great shift of power.  And it is almost impossible to entertain the notion that there could be a collusion between two forces.  And, further, this collusion could not exist without a third background on which to operate.  Princes C and D can't meet at each other's palace.  If someone saw prince C slipping into D's palace, the whole game would be over. They have to meet over at E's place.  And, of course, the only way that works is for all the people in the two kingdoms, to believe that as far as they know there are only two kingdoms on this planet.  Prince C and D could not meet were it not for E having a palace.  They could not meet in safety and carry on this alleged collusion if the people in C and D knew about it.  Nobody would put up with that, would they? JC talk 212