1 result for (book:ecs3 AND heading:"esp class session march 30 1971" AND stemmed:would)
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To answer the questions you need to feel your reality at any given moment, to follow your own thoughts, but not only your thoughts, but your physical sensations, the sensations of physical life. And when you cut off as many of these physical sensations as you can then what remains? What physical sensations do you think that you feel that an ant does not? What can he feel that you cannot? You evaded the questions. Now I knew you would evade the questions, so that is all right and it was part of the lesson but you must encounter your own vitality.
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Now I would like you, in the following week, to think of these questions again but answer them from a feeling level, from an experience level and then answer them as simply as you can verbally. But in finding the answers for yourselves you should have experiences that you may not be able to verbalize. And you should sense within yourselves the energy that resides within your own identity and sense to some extent the unique vitality of every living organism.
If the ant spoke, what would he say? Would he step on you if he were as large as you are? Let yourselves go in feeling with these questions. You sit here feeling isolated within your skins and for no reason for you, yourselves, enclose yourselves.
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(To Ned.) Though we had an honest answer from someone over here in the corner, I would still like a more adventurous spirit so when you ask yourselves the questions during the week then allow yourself, my dear friend, to feel the uniqueness and the integrity of your own personality as you now know it and realize that there is none like it, in this universe or any other. And it would be a crime indeed to end it.
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(To Joel) And you did cop out. You did not feel deeply enough. Beware of facility because you have strong ability, then it behooves you to use them fully and not to settle for less. You could have done far better and therefore, I did not give you an A and in truth you would not give yourself an A and neither would your friend.
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