1 result for (book:ecs2 AND heading:"esp class session novemb 17 1970" AND stemmed:inde)
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In nature there are no accidents. If you do not take Ruburt’s word then at least listen to mine. You need not take mine but listen to it, and there are no accidents. Now, if you accept, my dear Lady of Florence, the possibility of the slightest, smallest, most insignificant accident then, indeed, you open Pandora’s box. For logically there cannot be simply one small accident, but a universe in which accidents are not the exception but the rule. A universe in which, therefore, following logically, your consciousness is a combination of an accidental conglomeration of atoms and molecules without reason or cause that will vanish into nonexistence forever even as, indeed, they would have come from nonexistence.
Once you accept, you see, that idea then you must, if you follow your thought completely through, accept the idea of a random accidental universe in which you are at the mercy of any accident; in which mind or purpose have little meaning; in which you are at the mercy of all random happenings; in which 300,000 human beings can be swept off the face of the planet without reason, without cause, simply at the whim of an accidental happening. And if that is the universe in which you believe that you live then it is a dire and forbidding universe, indeed. In that universe the individual has little hope for he will return to the nonexistence that his random physical creation came from. Following that line of thought, then accidentally, if you follow this through, a group of atoms and molecules were sparked into consciousness and song and then will return to the chaos from which they came. And the individual has no control over his destiny for it can be swept aside at any point by random fate over which he has no recourse.
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You should not indeed, lest you set up patterns in which accidents, so called, become a way of existence.
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There is a reason, indeed. It need not always imply guilt, however. The location will be highly significant, indeed, as are all physical difficulties.
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It is, indeed.
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You may indeed. Have some wine with me.
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(To Ned and Sue.) I will have something to say to you, and to you, at another time when class is not involved, but I want you to jump together on the same stick. Did that come across? It will hold the both of you. Reality is not so precarious that you cannot both do your own thing and find a secure framework to hold you, for it will indeed.
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(To Ned and Sue.) And these two, back here, should have an experience worth recording. The third trip, indeed. The odds are up to you. You are odder than I am.
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She is, indeed, but that is not the reason for your reaction. Do not confuse the two. You are annoyed because you are annoyed and it has nothing to do with her overreaction and overindulgence. I did not say you were a bitchy parent. I was not that harsh or severe. That was your interpretation.
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