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ECS2 ESP Class Session, December 29, 1970 3/56 (5%) fish violence cannibals tribe kill
– The Early Class Sessions: Book 2 Sessions 1/6/70 to 12/29/70
– © 2008 Laurel Davies-Butts
– ESP Class Session, December 29, 1970 Tuesday

[... 28 paragraphs ...]

The cannibals, in one way, were far more discerning, far more religious, and far more sacred in their attitude than many of you here in this room. They ate, for example, both human beings and animals, but they did not eat indiscriminately, nor did they eat without a knowledge of what they did. They realized that their life was a portion of all this life. They were at one level, and you are at another level. But at their level, and in their level of experience, they partook of the sacrament of life as they ate those things that they slayed. They gave thanks to the body that they consumed. They hastened the spirit that had been in the body on its way with thanks. They prayed that their hearts would be as strong and brave as the hearts that they devoured. Many of them, in their own environment, knew that those who were not eaten by them, for example other warriors, would die of hunger in any case. They ate them, therefore, also with thanksgiving and joy.

[... 12 paragraphs ...]

(Florence remarked that cannibalism didn’t seem very religious.)

You were never a cannibal. The cannibals knew this sacrament subconsciously. It was built around a religious ritual. It was subconscious, but it was also consciously learned and followed. Their rituals were as strict as they are in your church and they were as religious as they followed them.

[... 12 paragraphs ...]

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