2 results for (book:ecs4 AND heading:"esp class session decemb 21 1971" AND stemmed:am)
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
Is it all right for me to speak now? I am waiting for your assent.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
As I speak now, the revelations that you are burst into activity, and certainly you should know of this. While you think, “I am man, a member of a certain species, inhabiting a planet named Earth in this space and in this time,” then you place artificial barriers between you and your perceptions. And you dwell in a world in which words grow into a distorted lens that denies your own vision. Therefore, to some extent, we will crumble the words up, crumble the words up and distort them until it seems that in the language that we use you perceive certain familiar sounds. Your associative processes find a certain feeling of safety and familiarity, leaping upon this vowel and this syllable. All delightful trickery. But a trickery that is in its own way as truthful as revelations that you are.
Now, I am using words in a different way this evening and for my own purposes. And I hope when I am finished, you will be sufficiently unscrambled to know what I am telling you, because when you are not scrambled, you do not understand what I am saying! If you possibly remember what I said last week, then we will have you dancing through your cordellas, throwing alphabets out of the window to flutter in the wind. Eat your words and see what happens.
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
(Very loud.) Right on! That shows you how modern and up-to-date I am, and proves that I am not archaic.
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