Spheres of Crystal

To get into
 The unitive world
 Underneath, underlying, and supporting
 The everyday practical world
 There have to be certain alterations in one's common sense
 Now there are certain ideas
 And beyond these ideas, certain feelings
 That are difficult to get across
 Not because they're intellectually complicated
 Not at all because of that
 But because they're unfamiliar
 They're strange
 We haven't been brought up
 To accommodate them
 In exactly the same way that, in past times
 People knew
 That the planets were supported in the sky
 Because they were embedded
 In spheres of crystal
 And if they weren't embedded in spheres of crystal
 And, of course, you could see them, because you could see through them
 They would fall down on the Earth
 And now, when astronomers finally suggested that
 There were no crystal spheres
 People felt unbelievably insecure
 See?
 They had a terrible time
 Assimilating this idea
 Now, do you see what it involves
 To assimilate a really new idea?
 You have to do quite a flip
 For example, there are some people whose number systems
 Only account (For) four quantities
 One, two, three, many
 So they don't have any concept of
 Four corners to a table
 See, a table has many corners
 And a pile of pebbles is
 In that sense, equivalent
 In many-ness to the four corners of the table
 Now, they have difficulty, you see
 In beginning to assimilate the idea of counting through
 And numbering all those corners or all those pebbles
 But we've done that
 So-to us-that is perfectly simple
 But imagine the kind of mentality, the kind of person
 To whom that is not simple at all
 Now, in exactly the same way
 There is, here
 What I'm trying to explain
 A new idea
 That most people don't assimilate
 And that is the idea of
 The total interdependence
 Of everything in the world