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Introduction
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A theoretical foundation such as the
text provides is necessary as a
framework to make the exercises in
this workbook meaningful. Yet it is
doing the exercises that will make
the goal of the course possible. An
untrained mind can accomplish
nothing. It is the purpose of this
workbook to train your mind to think
along the lines the text sets forth.
The exercises are very simple. They
do not require a great deal of time,
and it does not matter where you do
them. They need no preparation. The
training period is one year. The
exercises are numbered from 1 to
365. Do not undertake to do more
than one set of exercises a day.
The workbook is divided into two
main sections, the first dealing
with the undoing of the way you see
now, and the second with the
acquisition of true perception. With
the exception of the review periods,
each day's exercises are planned
around one central idea, which is
stated first. This is followed by a
description of the specific
procedures by which the idea for the
day is to be applied.
The purpose of the workbook is to
train your mind in a systematic way
to a different perception of
everyone and everything in the
world. The exercises are planned to
help you generalize the lessons, so
that you will understand that each
of them is equally applicable to
everyone and everything you see.
Transfer of training in true
perception does not proceed as does
transfer of the training of the
world. If true perception has been
achieved in connection with any
person, situation or event, total
transfer to everyone and everything
is certain. On the other hand, one
exception held apart from true
perception makes its accomplishments
anywhere impossible.
The only general rules to be
observed throughout, then, are:
First, that the exercises be
practiced with great specificity, as
will be indicated. This will help
you to generalize the ideas involved
to every situation in which you find
yourself, and to everyone and
everything in it. Second, be sure
that you do not decide for yourself
that there are some people,
situations or things to which the
ideas are inapplicable. This will
interfere with transfer of training.
The very nature of true perception
is that it has no limits. It is the
opposite of the way you see now.
The overall aim of the exercises is
to increase your ability to extend
the ideas you will be practicing to
include everything. This will
require no effort on your part. The
exercises themselves meet the
conditions necessary for this kind
of transfer.
Some of the ideas the workbook
presents you will find hard to
believe, and others may seem to be
quite startling. This does not
matter. You are merely asked to
apply the ideas as you are directed
to do. You are not asked to judge
them at all. You are asked only to
use them. It is their use that will
give them meaning to you, and will
show you that they are true.
Remember only this; you need not
believe the ideas, you need not
accept them, and you need not even
welcome them. Some of them you may
actively resist. None of this will
matter, or decrease their efficacy.
But do not allow yourself to make
exceptions in applying the ideas the
workbook contains, and whatever your
reactions to the ideas may be, use
them. Nothing more than that is
required.
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