Feel-It Transcription of a lecture given on 4-17-87

Transcription of a lecture given on 4-17-87 by Harry Palmer

Feel It

How do you feel? [Audience: Great! ]

I'm going to ask you to do something really selfish tonight, OK?

You be selfish for a while?

I'm going to ask you to feel. A very selfish thing! I mean, if you think about it, you never feel for the greater good of mankind. Feel is a very egotistical, selfish thing to do. Which may be why a lot of people are starting to turn it off. They don't feel very much. So I'm going to have you feel.

Want a definition of feel? "To touch or handle in order to become aware of. Examine or test by touching or handling."

OK, touch something, handle something, become aware of it.

Now there's this little thing that happens sometimes--you touch something, and when you touch it, you go "smooth". "Smooth" is a word that symbolizes a certain feel, it's not the feel. Sometimes you touch something and as soon as you can translate it into a word you go "Oh, that's smooth--felt it--smooth."

Go feel. Don't translate it into any words.

Boy, see how selfish we can get? No translation at all.

[From dictionary] "To perceive or be aware of through physical sensation."

For example, feel your body on the chair.

[From dictionary] "To experience an emotion or condition, such as to feel joy, to feel pain."

Feel joy without labeling it.

You know what's interesting?

We get into putting words on things to such an extreme that feeling becomes secondary to the urge to communicate it. It's like going on a vacation and the important part is coming back and telling someone, or showing them the pictures.

And of course when you get into the idea of living for others, you also get into the idea that others should live for you, which makes rather uncomfortable circumstances sometimes.

It's better to be selfish and live for yourself, which allows others to live for themselves, too. Feel what you feel and don't be too concerned about substituting words for what you' re experiencing.

And the funny thing is, if you take any two people or more and you sit them down together in a place, and don't let them talk, in a very short period of time they will feel the same way. Now, if they talked, they might get into a terrific argument because of the way they'd interpret that feeling--one calls it one thing and one calls it another, the symbols they put on it are different, but see, without words there's a match of vibrations, just from having them close to each other, in the same space, the frequency and the vibration will eventually coincide, and they'll feel the same.

So, while words allowed us to communicate and cooperate, they also keep us from being totally telepathic, and feeling, and allowing ourselves just to feel what other people feel.

When you come up to somebody, and if you're not interpreting in words, and you just hang out with them for a little while, pretty soon you'll be on their wavelength. You'll feel the way they feel.

Which is why somebody who's like this [slumps body to look sad] can't say "Aw, I'm feeling great". You get this sense of something is wrong.

You know, you stop and ask "Are you sure?"

"Oh yeah, I'm feeling great". You stop him cause the feeling isn't right. And the feeling is on that telepathic level, and probably if we want to go back to that telepathic level, and probably if we want to go back to telepathy, to communicate telepathically,...or go forward to it, you're going to have to drop out some words.

So I'm going to have you experience something. Breathe for a minute. You know how you breathe, you go [breathes] suck in air to your chest, let air out, like that. OK, now this one is risky. Instead of moving your chest at all, push your stomach out, and bring your stomach in, push your stomach out, bring your stomach in. As you're doing that your lungs will automatically fill with air. And when your chest stops it appears that you've stopped breathing.

Scary, huh!

The good thing about that is, if anything ever happens to your chest, you can breathe with your stomach.

The thing I'm showing you about is that feeling,... when you're feeling, the breathing tends to be lower. It's visceral, it's feeling. And the more into symbols and away from feeling that a person goes, the higher this breathing goes. Up tight, eh.

I want you to find something you consider beautiful in this room, and then experience your perception of beauty. This is totally on a selfish flow, you're never going to translate this feeling. [pause]

Oh great, it feels so great in here!

Did you get that feeling without any particular urge to interpret it or translate it into words?

OK, feel another person without any need or urge to translate it into words? [pause]

Oh, do it with your hands! Co-create an agreement!

Now, did you actually feel the flesh, and bones, or did you feel a person and a little embarrassment?

Feel it again and feel the meat. Are you getting back into a feel sense?

OK, here is a great truth. This is such a simple truth though, that even my dogs know it. Things become complicated to the degree that symbols are substituted for feelings.

So relax, enjoy, life is a process.

It continues.

Here's another thing to feel. Feel alive without any interpretation or need to translate it. Now feel very alive. [pause]

Does anybody feel that he's doing this wrong? [laughter]

Now when you just live life and you feel what's going on, it flows and you have the experience of it. When you start to define it and put symbols on it, you kind of stop it and put it in low,...lower categories, little hard packs of life.

You know I told you about words, and how two people will start to feel the same when they're together? Words are like symbols for life. A reflection of life. They're a representation of life.

Now the interesting thing is that symbols require explanation, life doesn't. So all of your great philosophies are explanations of the symbols of life rather than of life. You get into the very strange position of where you have a super great scholar who knows all of the teachings of all of the masters, who can say the right word at the right time; every question that you'd ever ask he has a answer. But he doesn't feel life.

He's incomplete, you can't really say he's an enlightened man; he's just a very knowledgeable man; but he's missed it. He's got all the explanations, he's going around saying "Well, it means this, and it means that."

Only symbols mean,...life is.

Feel alive. You did that very well. You know, I asked you to find something beautiful and experience it, it was pretty easy to do, but actually it was an interpretation that you placed on something. Oh, that's beautiful, that's ugly. That's wonderful, that's unwonderful--that's wonderless.

It's the interpretations that we place on our feelings that makes them pleasant or unpleasant. Feelings are. When you come up and say "Pain--ugh." "Wow!. Electrical impulse...hot, cold...pressure. Wow!" And "Hey, and blood," and you go "Oh! That's very bad!"

Well, it just is.

It's part of existence. It's a feeling. It's not a good or a bad feeling. But when you put an interpretation on it, oh, that's a very bad thing, and then. you come to experience it, you resist the interpretation that you've already put on it. It's bad, ooh, stay away from it. You get up a little ridge, or you set up one of these--(pushes fists together] on one side of it is your interpretation of the feeling, on the other side is the resist that you have on the feeling....You wouldn't have resisted it if you hadn't interpreted it as something that you shouldn't have. Yeah, they're both mine! That's how you lock something up. Something that you're going to experience you put an interpretation on it, like "Oh boy, that's very bad, don't experience that!" And boy will you lock a being up. This energy will then go into not experiencing.

You know what's the motive for actions? To feel.

[laughter, comments from audience]

The motive behind any action is to feel something, and when a being has moved into this no-feel level, where feelings have been substituted for by symbols, he becomes very inactive.

People who feel create,...people who deal with symbols think,...and the most creative people will be the people who are most in touch with their ability to feel. You see, you create for the purpose of feeling, and if you can't feel, there's no reason to create. You just push symbols around, that you've assigned the feeling meanings to.

Every great movement, every society, every revolution always has started with feelings; and they always start at a point where people have lost touch with feelings and are living on a symbol level. And someone comes along, some sort of messiah, or a pretty bright being who's had an experience of enlightenment, and turns the people back onto feeling. You see, he takes them out of symbols and puts them back into feeling; and they experience that he makes them feel very alive, or the movement makes them feel very alive, or overthrowing the king and burning the Bastille makes them feel very alive, because they're moving from this level where life had become symbols.

What is the meaning of life? Life is. It doesn't come with a meaning.

So any movement that has power actually moves people from dealing with symbols and thinking with symbols back into feeling, to feeling alive. It's the excitement. You feel excitement; you come alive.

You know what you have to do to become gods? [audience comments]

Well, what do sons of cats grow up to be? Sons of cats grow up to be cats, right? Sons of god grow up to be gods. You know what you have to know to become a god?... Nothing. (audience comments]

You can study the symbols or you can go out and feel life.

This is why...you know the Vedas? There's a letter that talks about the history of Avatar. And the ancient Vedas were the essence, the feeling of life. They were to transmit from one being to another being what life feels like.

Feel life, life is.

Of course you had to transmit the feel of life with symbols; that's the liability of not being able to meet somebody face to face, and look in their eyes and hug them;...which also communicates what life is. But when they did it with symbols, the symbols became more important than the essence that they were to communicate. So the Vedas would only last a short period of time in any form, and then they would need to be reinterpreted and reinterpreted and reinterpreted.

It was said of the Vedas that they were the breath of the eternal. That there was never a time when there were not Vedas; that they actually preceded the appearance of man.

And the word "Veda" means "feel of the essence of life". That's a translation. So the Vedas were not single scriptures.

Some scholars say "Oh yeah, the Sanskrit stuff, ancient, here are the Vedas, " but the Vedas are actually any teaching that brings a person to feel alive,... you know? That cuts through the level of symbols so that he actually feels alive.

So what does it all mean? [laughter]

Well, you're starting to step out on a level, a fourth density, if you want to call it that, where the meaning is what you assign, rather than what you find.

[laughter, comments from audience]

[Audience: Isn't that what intuition would be?]

Sure. Intuition I think, especially is a form of feeling. It's more a communication of feeling than it is of symbols.

I told you the story about the dolphins, how the dolphins perceive. That they send out a sound wave and it bounces off of things, and as it comes back into their--they actually send out a...they continue to send out a sound wave, and the sound wave going out bounces back and it hits the sound wave they are continuing to send out, and they get beats as the two sounds interfere with each other. From the interference pattern of the two sounds, they get another sound, and this sound they interpret into a three-dimensional picture of their world. 'A sunken ship over there, a lot of gold treasure over there. [laughter] A large fish over here.

Well, the neat thing about a dolphin is he can swim around the island and he goes to another dolphin and instead of sending out the sonar sound, he sends out the sound of the beats he got back. So that the second dolphin hearing it, sees just like he was there, where the first dolphin was.

He perceives the same three-dimensional picture. A treasure, ship, fish. Just like he was there. Which is a communication, a little bit senior to the communication of the symbols and the words that we use. In fact, when you look at the dolphins' form of communication, we're really in a model T. The only way we can even approach a dolphin is to have dictionaries all the time, continually. 'Everybody agree that this word means this.' Actually we usually define it in terms of other words, as we don't have the object there [pounds on mantle]. Mantle piece! We look in the dictionary and get "mantle piece is the thing over a fireplace." [laughter, comments from audience]

[Audience: If you could telepathically communicate the feeling of the experience, that would be much closer, it seems, to it.]

Yes. And you know I think we do that all of the time. That's continually going on. It's just there. Ready to be tuned into,...and you tune into it by feeling.

How are you all feeling? [Audience: Great!]

[Question: Do dolphins have the continuity of the dream state into their conscious state? Like they're consciousness in the water communicating with each other into the dream state consciousness, is that continuous for them?]

I'd say yes. [pause] But I don't know really.

[Brad: Would you read that one phrase about truth over again?]

Sure. Things become complicated to the degree symbols are substituted for feelings.

[B.: What does that mean?]

[laughter, comments from audience]

[Steve: What happens is when you get to thinking as opposed to feeling, you really remove yourself from the thing. When you're thinking, as opposed to when you're feeling, you actually become the thing you feel, whereas you think you're actually separate from it. I think that's the big difference. Instead of part of it, you part from it.]

Boy, that feels right! [laughter]

So are you all laid back now? Confused? [Audience: Any more symbols?]
Questions?

[Sue: What kind of...alpha-beta waves or something? It really strikes truth when you say we're always communicating with......brain waves, or what kind of waves?]

Well, you know how you go into a room where someone's just had a fight and somebody gets real upset and you'll find that you're actually having to make an effort not to be upset?

In other words, you're resisting experiencing the upsetness too, with the idea that if at least one of you is calm, it'll be better? Which may or may not be true. But, you'll find you know,...you start to experience their upsetness, and then you resist it. Then you go third density, and say 'I'm not going to let them upset me.

And from a fourth density viewpoint it was, 'hey, listen, I'll tell you what. You say this, and then I'll like, get upset, and that'll be kinda neat, you know.

[laughter]

OK guys, you really feel good, but I'm going to end now.

Harry Palmer C.C.L. Elmira

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