1 result for (book:ecs2 AND heading:"esp class session octob 27 1970" AND stemmed:intellect)
[... 9 paragraphs ...]
(To Florence.) And I would like you, dear Lady of Florence, to be aware of the questions asked by your inner self and not follow the intellect around like a puppy following its tail from one circle without answer to another for you limit the extent of your imagination in such a way. You form circles about yourself. You do not use your intellect to lead you to freedom but often as a leash.
You are learning to adjust the leash and now and then with great caution you allow yourself to wander a fingertip away without it. The inner self keeps propelling you to class, however, even though your intellect becomes more frenzied. In one respect, you see, and in a very important respect, the basic answers cannot be given to you, they must be experienced by you. You will know them in the way that you know that you breathe, but you may find it very difficult to vocalize them.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
Now, in particular I would like to hear answers from here (to Arnold) and here (to Dennis) and from the silent one in the back of the chair (to Laurie), and first of all I would like to make a remark to our friend (to Florence) and it is this. You believe that the intuitions and the intellect are natural enemies, and they are not so there need be no battleground between with you in the middle. Now, let us see what answers you come up with, and I will be listening.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
That is an example of using the intellect as a leash if I ever heard one. Now, you are all different aspects of whole selves or entities. You are different aspects. Now think you are different aspects. A whole puzzle exists, a crossword puzzle is on the table. Imagine it. It exists as a whole. You may have a large segment or small segments. Now, is a small segment less developed than a whole, larger segment of the same puzzle, and where is their placement in time? They exist as a whole. The various pieces are aspects of a whole but in this the puzzle is always changing and never the same. You have various aspects of consciousness.
[... 10 paragraphs ...]