2 results for (book:ecs4 AND heading:"esp class session decemb 21 1971" AND stemmed:time)
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
Do not think first, “Is this a true word?” Use the word as a launching pad to experience. Within the word is a wordless knowledge. Now you need the sounds to remind you. In time—in your time—you will dispense even with the sounds. You will be walking backward, in your terms, into the heart of perception. Therefore, you will leave behind many of the truths that are now familiar to you, the words that you take for granted. For when you consider an experience, you apply words to it much more than feelings: “Does this word apply, or does that word apply, or what is it; and without its label, dare I experience this unknown?”
[... 1 paragraph ...]
What is your experience at any given time without reliance upon words and labels? Where are you? What are you? What is where? Where is who? Again, Ruburt was quite correct. We want to scramble up your perceptions, so that you can experience experience and not place curtains of labels between you and your own feelings and own knowledge.
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.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
(Sumari spoke to class for some time, individually and collectively, using chants and particular characterizations. Jane then came out of trance and instructed the students to stand in various areas of the room, in answer to significant feelings she had about these positions. After meeting Florence in the center of the room, Sue wrote a short verse about their encounter and read it to class.)
[... 14 paragraphs ...]
During ESP Class the Sumari, through Jane, told Florence to go look out the middle window, and Sue to look at the door which they did. At the same time Florence and Sue turned and walked toward each other and met in the center of the room. Florence knelt before Sue, and Sue was stunned—for a second. Then Sue put her hand on Florence’s head, and Florence got up and they embraced, and it was over.... Then Sue got the following as a concept in both Sumari and English at once.
[... 7 paragraphs ...]