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TWO WORLDS - PART I

along the way. They just don’t see that. I see that some people feel that it’s to their advantage to stick up for their
rights. I’ve never seen that one work very well. So I don’t consider that’s to my advantage.

When We Understand Games, We Can Then See What's To Our Advantage
So when we begin to see that we’re in this world and that it does have standards, it does have ideas, it does have

ideals, and we have many mechanical situations, we can begin to think of what is to my advantage. And certainly
maybe these people that start out as new guests at the party are at least entitled to be told or taught and maybe given
a little examination to see if they know the rules of the game. Remember, they came in as privileged invited guests
and given a couple of slaves to look after them, and a few things, but they weren’t taught the rules of the game as a
basic thing. They don’t know what it is. And maybe every once in a while the rules get changed.

Every Person on Earth Is Unique
Now in the real world of living beings there are no two of which are alike. No two living beings are exactly alike. (writes
on board) Now how would you set up a standard for anything that isn’t any, two or more exactly alike. You can’t set it
up.

We have to recognize that each person is a unique work of art. Some of them, admittedly, are cartoons, but
(laughter) they’re still works of art out here, you know.

There's No Way to Get Along Unless You Know the Rules

So, unless they can get some information as to how to live in this man-made world they won’t know. There’s no way to
get along in it unless you learn some of the rules. Whatever those rules may be. "Standards" belongs over in the man-
made world, it’s not right, it’s not wrong, or anything else. It simply is. When there’s no two alike there can be no
standards.

Judging People Is to See Them As Machines
So then you couldn’t set up and say this one is bad, this one’s good, etc. But man being, living, in the manmade world,
has decided to set up standards for people and we built great institutions around setting standards. As though man
were a mere machine.

Health
We have the medical arts, for instance, which is a great game that goes on, and they set up a standard of
health, we’ll say here. And they set a standard for it and it doesn't fit any person in the world.

There is a standard set up but it doesn’t fit anybody. It’s an average over a whole bunch of people. And if any one of

you go in to be examined tomorrow by a member of the medical arts to see if you’re totally healthy or normal, we’ll put
“normal” there (on the board) also, that’s something, and I compare you to a bunch of averages, how do you come
out? [Several in group: abnormal.] You’ll be abnormal in some way, won’t you? Now you’re a patient! (laughter)

Normal and Abnormal

I went to school and studied this stuff, it sounded pretty good to me, they told me that the first two years I was in
school I would study the norm. The normal, so I would recognize the abnormal when I got into clinical situations in the
last three or four years. So, that sounded pretty good and I studied all these norms we had mannequins and we had
charts and we had drawings, and we had books, with all kinds of tables in them. I learned them diligently. And then
one day they set me out in front of a person who walked in. He didn’t fit it! Funny old guy, he didn’t fit it at all. So,

immediately, I had a patient. Because he didn’t fit it. Now, there wasn’t a thing in the world wrong with the old guy, at
all, but he didn’t fit the norm.

So, you see, everybody in the eyes of the medical arts is a patient. Because you’re abnormal SOME way,
because you don’t fit that norm.

Theology
And comes along and we have theology, that’s a good subject. In medicine they set up a standard of “good.” Just as
though you were a machine. But there’s many different theologies, you know, lots of them. And they set up a standard

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