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ECS2 ESP Class Session, December 15, 1970 7/24 (29%) Theodore sensitivity pious badger mask
– The Early Class Sessions: Book 2 Sessions 1/6/70 to 12/29/70
– © 2008 Laurel Davies-Butts
– ESP Class Session, December 15, 1970 Tuesday

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For now (to Theodore) accept the thoughts as a spontaneous part of the moment. You are fighting them too hard. They are not enemies. You do not need to shoot them down. Accept them as a part of the moment, and they will lose their strength. The only strength they have is a strength you give them, and the more you try to resist them in that regard, the more importance you give to them. So go along with them and they will dissipate.

Now, I wish you all a good evening and I am going to be here to see how you do.

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Now, I will let you get on with your experiments. I am waiting to see how you do, and Ruburt will be mad at me because he will say that you will not be spontaneous if you know I am around and, you see, you must prove him wrong. If I can be so spontaneous and dead these many years, then I fail to see why you would have any difficulty! Have fun. The gods have fun, and if you listen you can hear their laughter.

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Now, each of you had to recognize your own emotions and your own feelings this evening, to one extent or another. This is your reality. You are used to hiding from them, and the more feelings you inhibit the more you inhibit your natural joy and spontaneity. And, to some extent, our friend over here is correct in that you can use sensitivity sessions themselves as simply another mask, in which case you never show yourself. Instead you display whatever mask you feel is required, which is after all another part of the social game that you always play. When you are doing psychological time, however, you cannot afford to be using energy to hide your own emotions from yourself. You need a feeling of release, you need to be friends with yourself so that you can let your abilities flow freely.

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Now, in somewhat the same way must you meet your own aliveness and encounter yourselves, and you cannot do it by digging around the bush. You do it by realizing emotionally two things: your relationship with everything else that exists and your miraculous uniqueness; and the meeting place between the two is where the self is and you think of the self. The words I speak are meaningless if you do not put them to use and if they do not arouse in you a spark of activity. Now, I will lead a sensitivity session here some night that will be some session.

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Now, I do not mean to badger you (to Theodore) for I know you cannot badger someone to be spontaneous, but I have nothing against shaking you up a bit.

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You sit here and tell me you cannot remember your dreams; then why do you not want to remember? You have ways of finding out. Ask the person who knows.

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