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▼ NoME Part Two: Chapter 3: Session 817, January 30, 1978 2/42 (5%) myths mythical disaster factual manifestations
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Framework 1 and Framework 2
– Chapter 3: Myths and Physical Events. The Interior Medium in Which Society Exists
– Session 817, January 30, 1978 9:35 P.M. Monday

[... 14 paragraphs ...]

It certainly seems that your world is concrete, factual, definite, and that its daily life rests upon known events and facts. You make a clear distinction between fact and fantasy. You take it for granted as a rule that your current knowledge as a people rests upon scientific data, at least, that is unassailable. Certainly technological development appears to have been built most securely upon a body of concrete ideas.

[... 3 paragraphs ...]

If someone is caught in a natural disaster, the following questions might be asked: “Am I being punished by God, and for what reason? Is the disaster the result of God’s vengeance?” A scientist might ask instead: “With better technology and information, could we somehow have predicted the disaster, and saved many lives?” He might try to dissociate himself from emotion, and to see the disaster simply as the result of a nonpersonal nature that did not know or care what lay in its path.

[... 22 paragraphs ...]

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