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November 4, 1972

The whole subconscient is … (gesture of something rising up en

 masse).

(silence)

And then … how can I put this? … It isn’t sensation or knowledge, it’s a kind of … (Mother feels the air between her fingers), you can’t even say conviction: it’s a certitude – a certitude in the perception – that Bliss is there … right there, WAITING FOR us, but a whole world of contradictions that have been repressed in the subconscient keeps rising up from the subconscient to prevent us from feeling it. So … you could say it’s a battlefield, but in a perfect calm.

It’s impossible to describe.

Impossible to describe.

When I remain still and enter that Consciousness, time flies with fantastic speed, in a kind of … luminous calm. But the slightest thing that pulls me out of it seems to pull me into hell. Exactly.

The discomfort is so great one feels one couldn’t last a minute or a few minutes like that. So one … one calls the Divine…. You feel like curling up in the Divine.

And then it goes well.

(Mother plunges in

 but after a while she seems ill at ease)

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