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▼ ECS3 ESP Class Session, March 2, 1971 3/90 (3%) Ned sad Gert secrets sensitive
– The Early Class Sessions: Book 3 Sessions 1/5/71 to 5/18/71
– © 2010 Laurel Davies-Butts
– ESP Class Session, March 2, 1971 Tuesday

[... 18 paragraphs ...]

Now I have not told you to be decorous or quiet. I have spoken to you of direct experience, and by direct experience, I mean, also, emotional experience. You cannot divorce it from your own sense of reality and I use therefore the word “love” without the embarrassment that some of you, quite privately, ascribe to it. You can love a flower, you do not hate it because it has one brown petal, and yet, when you find another individual with a symbolic brown petal, you immediately latch upon that.

[... 22 paragraphs ...]

([Gert:] “Then we have distorted the word love as being something simply sexual?”)

[... 2 paragraphs ...]

It is your interpretation of a love that you do not know how to interpret. The closest you can come to the idea, and the feeling of true love is the sexual one and so you often interpret what you receive in sexual terms. In your terms of speaking this is fine and dandy.

[... 44 paragraphs ...]

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