1 result for (book:ecs4 AND heading:"esp class session decemb 7 1971" AND stemmed:bett)
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Now if you were not the Sumari you would not be here at this particular time, and if all of you did not know what it was to be Sumari you would not be here at all. You have been given a language it seems that is not a language. And since you have been given it there is a reason for it, and what earthly good is a language that is not a language? An ancient language that never was and within those paradoxes what meanings are there for you to learn? Now I have—I’ve always been Sumari. I am a tough old Sumari. I am a Sumari of the old school. A Tumali of the old school. And what is there about a language that has both beginnings and endings in it as you think of them, elements of a distant past and portents of what perhaps languages might be in your future? And why do you need a language beside the one that you have? And you need not worry, you will not have to learn declensions. I would not have you stew over that with all of your other problems (to Bette).
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
([Bette:] “Could we call this language a telepathic language because we are so used to sounds and physical things around us that we have to have a vehicle to connect us to other things?”)
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([Bette:] “And this language, if we...”)
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
([Bette:] “I have a question that doesn’t tie in with this. Will you be back?”)
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
([Bette:] “Did you and I sit one time, a long time ago? It would be like where they served drinks.”)
[... 1 paragraph ...]
([Bette:] “And did we drink hot rum together?”)
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([Bette:] “Thank you.”
[... 28 paragraphs ...]
([Bette:] “This goes back to Sumari. Would I be right in saying that Sumari is like the very kernel or the very seed that we grow from?”)
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([Bette:] “Then it’s the very core from which ...when we get involved in this time and all time is going on, all our lives are going on now—past, present, future...”
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([Bette:] “No, Seth, it did not.”)
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([Bette:] “Go back to the core. All these lives, all of our lives are going on now.”)
[... 1 paragraph ...]
([Bette:] “Now if we could somehow stop everything and go back this way we would all go right back to Sumari, right? To the core?”)
[... 1 paragraph ...]
([Bette:] “No, I got that one.”
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
([Bette:] “All right, so we go from the seed to the tree to the leaves. Now the leaves fall off and eventually—I know that it’s the same thing like I said with our lives, that all are going on at the same time. It’s a cycle but does it eventually all go back to the seed?”)
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([Bette:] “I got it. Thank you.”)
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