1 result for (book:ecs3 AND heading:"esp class session april 27 1971" AND stemmed:florenc)
2/66 (3%)
sacrifice
Ned
evolved
Chary
isolated
(Florence stated that at last week’s session she felt like we were mice in a cage, and Seth I and Seth II were scientists checking up on us.)
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(To Florence.) Now last week when Ruburt was speaking about the natives who are such expert dreamers, you asked, our Lady of Florence, then why are they not more progressive? And yet I know that you realize that your own progress as a civilization, in your terms, will come to a halt unless you progress in other directions. This is what your civilization is learning. That you cannot rape your planet. And life did not begin as some isolated single organism that in the great probabilities of existence meant another, and then another, and then another, until a chain of molecules could be made and selves formed. Neither does consciousness exist, using an analogy, as simple organisms separated by vast distances, but as a complicated gestalt.
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