1 result for (book:deavf2 AND session:921 AND stemmed:jane)
5/36 (14%)
schizophrenic
devil
demons
personifications
debased
(Jane’s arms and legs have been sore today, off and on, but she feels that beneficial changes are taking place in them as a result of the sessions on the magical approach to reality. She’s “real pleased” with her progress on the poetry and essays for If We Live Again.
After supper Jane said that Seth might talk about reincarnation, schizophrenia, and possession, tying those subjects together. Right away I could see how they might be related at times, yet I wasn’t able to spontaneously verbalize the connections. Here are three points:
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2. Jane’s mention of reincarnation came from my idle speculations at our evening meal, after we’d been told about how a local man and woman had embarked upon a radically new joint life-style, to the consternation of many in our area. I’d wondered whether aroused reincarnational ties might have played a part in the couple’s actions. Such factors simply aren’t usually considered in “modern” social analyses of people’s behavior—yet sometimes they might actually play a very important role. However, I certainly don’t mean that supposed reincarnational relationships can or should be used to justify present-life behavior. Many other psychological elements are involved in any human situation.
3. Jane’s mention of possession came about because today I’d read her an article in a scholarly journal we subscribe to. The piece contained public information with which we were already familiar. Briefly, most authorities in the Roman Catholic Church realize that almost all of those who are supposed to be “possessed” by malevolent forces are in actuality mentally ill people who need treatment. Yet the church must admit the separate reality of the devil and numerous demons, because their existences are given in the Gospels. This contradiction was reinforced in 1972, when Pope Paul VI declared before several thousand people that the devil is a distinct, actual being.)
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10:26 P.M. I told Jane that the session is another excellent one, “I do believe he’s going to go on with that material,” she said. I hope so, for it appears that Seth is far from carrying his discussion through to the subject of reincarnation. I’m most interested that he do so.)
