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NoPR Part Two: Chapter 12: Session 649, March 19, 1973 5/26 (19%) race moral judgments wealth illness
– The Nature of Personal Reality
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Your Body as Your Own Unique Living Sculpture. Your Life as Your Most Intimate Work of Art, and the Nature of Creativity as It Applies to Your Personal Experience
– Chapter 12: Grace, Conscience, and Your Daily Experience
– Session 649, March 19, 1973 9:37 P.M. Monday

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[... 5 paragraphs ...]

Regardless, there are certain tendencies, mental stances, that you will take about yourself, your body and your life to one degree or another. Many of these will be directly or indirectly connected with old myths and beliefs of your forefathers. Your ideas of good and evil as applied to health and illness are highly important, for instance. (Pause.) Few can escape putting value judgments in such areas. If you consider illness as a kind of moral stigma, then you will simply add an unneeded quality to any condition of ill health.

Such judgments are very simplistic, and ignore the great range of human motivation and experience. If you are bound and determined that “GOD” (in capitals and quotes) creates only “good,” then any physical deficiency, illness or deformity becomes an affront to your belief, threatens it, and makes you angry and resentful. If you become ill you can hate yourself for not being what you think you should be — a perfect physical image made in the likeness of a perfect God.

[... 8 paragraphs ...]

Now: Such critical evaluations are placed upon colors as well. Often white is considered pure, and black impure, white good and black evil.

[... 7 paragraphs ...]

NoPR Part Two: Chapter 13: Session 649, March 19, 1973 5/22 (23%) Grace Poverty Disintegration diagrams Wealth
– The Nature of Personal Reality
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Your Body as Your Own Unique Living Sculpture. Your Life as Your Most Intimate Work of Art, and the Nature of Creativity as It Applies to Your Personal Experience
– Chapter 13: Good and Evil, Personal and Mass Beliefs, and Their Effect Upon Your Private and Social Experience
– Session 649, March 19, 1973 9:37 P.M. Monday

GOOD AND EVIL, PERSONAL AND MASS BELIEFS, AND THEIR EFFECT UPON YOUR PRIVATE AND SOCIAL EXPERIENCE

[... 9 paragraphs ...]

Heading for the chapter: “Good and Evil, Personal and Mass Beliefs, and Their Effect Upon Your Private and Social Experience.” Do you have that?

[... 5 paragraphs ...]

Now: I outlined some opposing ideas held by many people — all involving concepts of good or evil being applied in areas in which they do not belong.

[... 1 paragraph ...]

I bid you then a fond good evening. And other issues are working with Ruburt, which is another reason for the briefer session.

(“Thank you, Seth. Good night.”

[... 1 paragraph ...]

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