1 result for (book:ecs3 AND heading:"esp class session march 2 1971" AND stemmed:close)
5/90 (6%)
Ned
sad
Gert
secrets
sensitive
[... 17 paragraphs ...]
Now many of you still do not realize what I say. You listen to the words and that is all, but the power behind the words, and the power behind the voice, is emotional power and emotional energy and it represents, again, energy that is within each of you and there is no need to be afraid of it. I am not worried about being dignified and adult. Why should you be? And why should you try to be psychically educated while closing yourself off emotionally from the others who come to class for you all have put up barriers between yourselves. You must learn to recognize and use and pool your emotional energy. You do not lose, but gain.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
(To Ned.) And no disappearing act will work, for wherever you can disappear to, I can follow and behind all your ostentatious openness there are closed doors. They are simply not as obvious as other people’s closed doors. There is one certain way to avoid detection by others and it is to appear so open that it will not occur to them that there is anything you are hiding, but you do not fool me.
[... 33 paragraphs ...]
([Ned:] “Could we get rid of these barriers in a sensitivity class, as close as we know?”)
As close as you know.
[... 31 paragraphs ...]
(To Arnold.) And jump out of your concepts, they are like zippers that close you in.
