This is the start of a new School. We have had many requests to have a School, one where people come to a given place, live and work together for many months and constantly being exposed to certain ideas, ideas which are a study of man. Finding that many people from many different areas wish to attend these Schools and that it is very inconvenient and very expensive and sometimes almost impossible for people to disrupt their homes, businesses and jobs for many months to attend one of these Schools. After much, much effort and quite a considerable amount of study and experimentation we have decided to put “the School” on — recorded on cassette tapes. No one will be standing over you. Will you please use the tapes as they are designed so you may receive the maximum benefit and the maximum value from the tapes. Each tape is numbered. There is no specific name or title to each tape. They are numbered from 1 to 48. Each tape is to be used for one week. It was suggested that you listen to the tape at least once each day and that you very carefully consider the material that is covered on the tape and that you attempt to observe it in your affairs, in your everyday existence. The only thing that is different when a school is put on and people come to one given place is that they are constantly reminded of what they are doing. There are constantly pointed out certain ideas that may be used for observation. These ideas will be pointed out to you day by day and week by week. In 48 weeks, if you’ve used the tapes according to the instructions, you will find that there is a complete transformation in your state of being.

Now the usual study of man, which has been undertaken for centuries, is that man is divided into various aspects. His physiology is studied and there is considerable literature on his physiology, the internal function of the human body. This is very, very valuable but it is isolated as the study of the body and does not take into consideration what is going on in either his structure or most especially his inner state, his psyche, his soul, his spirit. These are interchangeable words. There are spiritual studies but they have gradually deteriorated into “observing the behavior” and trying to fit certain behavior and avoid certain other behavior. In other words, there is an attempt to be what’s called “good,” that one would be kind and considerate etc. However, there is much in man that is not brought to light and is not studied and so in spite of his attempts to do these, he seldom if ever succeeds. If he does succeed he is in somewhat of a turmoil within and really hasn’t succeeded; he’s only been conditioned to be good. His structure is studied and great works of anatomy are performed and are very valuable for surgery but they give one little if any understanding of what’s happening to the structure in everyday affairs of aging, aches and pains, distortions etc.

Now the necessity for a School, so that you will know that you have a School and that you are in a School and that you have all the requirements of a School as if it were away in some hidden area in the California desert or in the mountains of Idaho or in some valley in New Mexico or in some other area. These are the necessary things for a School: That one has a Teaching or a set of ideas that put light on our inner states, our spiritual being, it gives a spiritual interpretation of all events both inner and outer. Obviously, all of these ideas will not be given at once. They are given one at a time and one observes for self to see if these ideas are true. Nothing is to be accepted because you hear it on a tape or because you hear it in person. One is to investigate, observe by careful observation, repeatedly, to observe that the ideas are factual, or if they are not, discard them. Don’t discard them at the first moment — continue a little bit.

The first necessity of a school is a given set of ideas which no man claims credit for having originated. They have been around a very long time. Various persons may carry these ideas and share them with others, but the ideas are what are worthwhile not the person who carries those ideas. In this usual terminology we say it is the contents that are worthwhile not the container. So whether your container is a cassette tape, some person or whatever, it is the ideas that count not the person or the means by which you receive them or the channels through which you receive the ideas. So the ideas will put a light, a spiritual interpretation, on all the events that one experiences in the various relationships of everyday existence.

The second thing is that there are two or more people in a relationship. This may be work, home, play, or whatever; that there are two or more people in relationship. Only one of these needs to know about the ideas. That is you. Please do not try to force the ideas on anyone else. They are to be used as an Inner Light, not to be taught to other people, forced upon them or anything. If they ever ask, and much later down the way you will be given instructions that you may be aware, you will then be able to check it out if the person is really wanting to be a student and study or whether they are merely curious. So at first there are two or more people, any number of them, maybe fifty where you work or it may be a large family or it may be some kind of public service, civic work, whatever and wherever. You will probably have many relationships. Whatever relationships one finds ones self in one has something to observe there, and the ideas of the Teaching throws lights on it so that you may understand what’s going on in the inner man, the inner state, ones state of being.

So there’s two or more people in relationship. There’s nobody so isolated that you do not have some other person that you have some relationship, work, play, home, whatever, everyday. This work is not for hermits. Only one of the people need be acquainted with the ideas. In fact, sometimes it is better that only one be acquainted with it, you. One who has the ideas is observing and all the others are going merrily on their way totally unaware that you are doing the observing. That one must be using the Teaching for self, at least part of the time. Teaching that is not used is, of course, without any value whatsoever.

Some of the ideas of The Science of Man for study and experimentation, at this moment they will only be worthwhile as something to study, to be aware of and that there is a different set of ideas. You will be given specific assignments, specific bits of work and specific ways of observing these various ideas from time to time. So don’t be in a hurry. Haste makes waste as the old saying goes. Slowly, methodically and carefully proceed on one’s way. One is traveling over a very new road and to you it sometimes may seem rocky or bumpy at first, however very shortly it will be a very delightful way.

Some of the ideas of the School are: That man or woman in everyday life have never studied or been exposed or had the opportunity to use the various ideas that throw light on the spiritual aspect of man and his relationship between his psychology, his physiology, his structure and his biology. That that person without that understanding or not having that opportunity is mechanical. Now anything mechanical does not have a will of its own, it does not have a determination of its own. It is purely subject to what happens to it. Your automobile may be sitting in the street washed, shined, motor tuned, everything in perfect shape, but it has no will as to whether it will go or sits. Turn the key and it performs the way it was equipped to perform — what it was designed for. A human being may be in such a state that anyone can push a button and cause them to be angry, or cause them to work or cause them to agree with many ideas which will possibly lead them into a state of slavery sooner or later, a state of dependency on something else. Further, when the car is just sitting in the street and something bumps it, it is all bent out of shape. We might say that when we become angry, worried, excited, frightened, resentful, bashful, jealous etc., that we are bent out of shape. We are far from being happy and pleased within self or being conscious. We did not choose this state, it happened to us, and in that state we are mechanical. The first thing that we will observe is that we don’t choose our states.

So right here you may take a piece of paper and write down the various things that you see all this week, day after day, as you listen to the tapes. Observe what goes on in relationships, how many times one behaves mechanically. You might say we have buttons out. Somebody comes along and pushes a button and I’m angry; somebody else comes along and pushes a button and I’m very delighted; somebody else pushes a button and I feel annoyed or aggravated or I’m upset in some other way. Now we didn’t choose to be this way, it just happened. Obviously, none of us would choose to be upset. We would choose to be peaceful and serene. But we then notice that we are not that way much of the time. Maybe we go along several days and everybody is pushing the proper button and I feel very delighted. But sooner or later in relationship, somebody forgets, somebody moves something that I left in a certain place, somebody says, “Why are you doing that?” Somebody forgets to do what they said they would do. Let’s observe the mechanical reaction. Those are just a little samples of the way to push buttons.

The second idea of the School, that as well as man being mechanical, that he is 100% subject to suggestion 100% of the time. For a suggestion to work it must be based upon something that is the prime form within man, his frame of reference. Very early in our existence, p