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I'd like to begin this talk with a few verses from Roomy.

I must have been incredibly simple, or drunk, or insane, to sneak into my own house and

steal money, to climb over the fence and take my own vegetables.

But no more, I've gotten free of that ignorant fist that was pinching and twisting my secret

self.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

I am the crescent moon put up over the gate to the festival.

So this is one of my very favorite verses.

I love it because it says it so clearly that we pretty universally get into a trance,

kind of self-ego trance, whereby we're injuring ourselves in each other with our thoughts,

with our ways of acting.

We're in some way judging and twisting and pinching ourselves in each other, controlling,

defending.

And as we become free of that self-ing behavior, all the judging and controlling, as we become

free of it, that light of the stars start shining through us.

We come home to who we really are.

So trance is fueled.

It's fueled.

And this is keep coming back to, by the thoughts and the beliefs we have.

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