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DEaVF2 Chapter 8: Session 917, May 21, 1980
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imagination
eccentricity
disorders
insane
stockpile
– Dreams, "Evolution", and Value Fulfillment: Volume Two
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 8: When You Are Who You Are. The Worlds of Imagination and Reason, and the Implied Universe
– Session 917, May 21, 1980 8:49 P.M. Wednesday
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
Now on the question of “mental disorders,” it is highly important that individual integrity be stressed, rather than the blanket definitions that are usually accorded to any group of symptoms. In many such circumstances, however, such individuals are combining the imagination and the reasoning abilities in ways that are not in keeping with their historic periods. (With some irony:) It would not be entirely out of keeping, though somewhat exaggerated a statement, to claim that men who stockpile nuclear weapons in order to preserve peace are insane. In your society, such activities are, in a way that completely escapes me, somehow under the label of humanitarianism!
Such plans are not considered insane ones—though in the deepest meaning of that word, they are indeed. There are many reasons for such actions, but an overemphasis upon what you think of (underlined) as the reasoning abilities, as opposed to what you think of as the imaginative abilities, is at least partially to blame.
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
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DEaVF2 Chapter 7: Session 914, May 7, 1980
retarded
technology
species
values
council
– Dreams, "Evolution", and Value Fulfillment: Volume Two
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 7: Genetics and Reincarnation. Gifts and “Liabilities.” The Vast Sweep of the Genetic and Reincarnational Scales. The Gifted and the Handicapped
– Session 914, May 7, 1980 9:02 P.M. Wednesday
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NoPR Part One: Chapter 4: Session 620, October 11, 1972
generate
emotions
belief
judgments
imagination
– The Nature of Personal Reality
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part One: Where You and the World Meet
– Chapter 4: Your Imagination and Your Beliefs, and a Few Words About the Origin of Your Beliefs
– Session 620, October 11, 1972 10:00 P.M. Wednesday
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DEaVF2 Chapter 8: Session 915, May 12, 1980
particles
intervals
invisible
sequences
neurologically
– Dreams, "Evolution", and Value Fulfillment: Volume Two
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 8: When You Are Who You Are. The Worlds of Imagination and Reason, and the Implied Universe
– Session 915, May 12, 1980 9:10 P.M. Monday
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NoPR Part One: Chapter 4: Session 621, October 16, 1972
willpower
beliefs
examine
imagination
dissect
– The Nature of Personal Reality
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part One: Where You and the World Meet
– Chapter 4: Your Imagination and Your Beliefs, and a Few Words About the Origin of Your Beliefs
– Session 621, October 16, 1972 9:40 PM. Monday