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There are times when psychotherapy is a tremendous help, because ,you know, when you're on the point  where you're about to get insane, raving mad, you're about to become either a psychotic or a mystic. Because that's what the mystic is. D'you know one sign that you've woken up? You're asking yourself, “Am I crazy, or are all of them?” Really is! Because they’re crazy. The whole world is crazy. They're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything. They're crazy! To the point, that I've come to believe, if everybody’s saying  something, you can be sure it's wrong! Sure! Every new idea, every great idea, when it first began was in a minority of one. That guy called Jesus Christ - minority of one. Everybody was saying something different. Buddha - minority of one. Everybody was saying something different in fact it’s even worse. I think it was Bertrand Russell who said, “Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.” That's well and accurately put. You're going to hear lots of blasphemies during these days. "He hath blasphemed!" Because they’re crazy, they're lunatic, and the sooner you see this, the better for your mental and spiritual health. Don't trust them. Don't trust your best friends. Get disillusioned with your best friends. They're very clever. As you are when you’re dealing with everybody, though you probably don't know it. Ah, you're so wily, and subtle, and clever. You're putting on a great act. I'm not being very complimentary, am I?

But you want to wake up. You're putting on a great act, don’t you. And you don't even know it. You think you're being so loving. Ha! Ha! Whom are you loving? Even when you’re going for self-sacrifice (as Claire’s just telling a little while ago) that gives you a good feeling, doesn't it? “Me? I'm sacrificing myself! I'm living up to my ideal.” But you're getting something out of it, aren't you? You're always getting something out of everything you do, until you wake up.

So there it is: step one. Realize that you don't want to wake up. It's pretty difficult to wake up when you have been hypnotized into thinking, as I said to you before, that a scrap of old newspaper is a check for a million dollars. You’re hypnotized. How difficult it is to tear yourself away from that scrap of newspaper.