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The voice that says, 鈥淭hat鈥檚 the way I am,鈥� is the voice of knowledge. It鈥檚 the voice of the liar living in the Tree of Knowledge in your head. The Toltec consider it a mental disease that is highly contagious because it鈥檚 transmitted from human to human through knowledge. The symptoms of the disease are fear, anger, hatred, sadness, jealousy, conflict, and separation between humans. Again, these lies are controlling the dream of our life. I think this is obvious.
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The second attention is available to all of us, but, by willfully holding on to our half-cocked rationality, some of us more fiercely than others, keep the second attention at arm鈥檚 length.
His idea was that dreaming brings down the barriers that surround and insulate the second attention.
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― The Art of Dreaming
― The Art of Dreaming