1 result for (book:ecs2 AND heading:"esp class session decemb 29 1970" AND stemmed:automat)
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fish
violence
cannibals
tribe
kill
[... 18 paragraphs ...]
There was a civilization, and I am writing this in my book and some of you know of it—a civilization, in your terms, in your dim past, in which a group of human beings tried to form a physical body that could not act violently and when violence was threatened the body automatically closed off from action. It could not, literally, act. These people thought then that violence would be wiped away from the face of the earth, and they hoped to begin a race of people that would not know violence. It would seem perhaps to you, that this was a highly idealistic race and that they grew in strength and beauty, but they were not facing the issues clearly, you see.
[... 17 paragraphs ...]
It is a lack of development, spiritual development, and so it will automatically lead them into trials that they will have to face. Not in terms of punishment, however, but in terms of understanding. The ignorance will cause them sorrow until they learn to rid themselves of it.
[... 18 paragraphs ...]
