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makes you absolutely tranquil and still. The real is that which takes all fears away and all desires away from you. The real is that which explodes like a tremendous contentment and the unreal is that which is always followed by misery, anxiety, tension, strain. But what happens is: if we have lived for a long time in a dream and have lived for a long time followed by misery, we become attached to the misery. It looks as if it is the only life there is. Without it we feel almost nude, without clothes, something seems to be missing.
It is as if a prisoner has been in the prison for forty years with heavy chains on his hands and feet, then one day suddenly he is made free. He will not be able to sleep that night. He will miss those chains and the sound of the chains. Each time he turns in his bed he will know that something is missing. Forty years is a long time. Those chains were no more chains now -- they had become part of his being, part of his identity. Now suddenly he is without identity.
That's what happens: when you come here for the first time your old identity starts slipping away. That's what you are feeling, that something is slipping away. And naturally, unless the old has completely gone, the new cannot arrive. There cannot be a meeting of the old and the new. When the old ceases to be, the new begins. But you are on the verge -- if you can take a little courage you will never be the same again. You can awake but you can escape too! You can become very much afraid of awakening.
... The dream is going to go! Just keep a little alert. And you are coming close to home!
[The Primal Therapy group is present. One leader says: I don't know quite how much to just allow things to happen -- which I prefer -- or how much to do and structure and direct the thing so that it creates a space where other things can happen.]
No. A little structure is good. Too much structure is not good but without structure you will not come to any results. An unstructured group is good if it goes on for at least three months. Then something is bound to happen! How can you escape.... Mm? But if it is only for ten, twelve, fifteen days, then an unstructured
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