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▼ NotP Chapter 3: Session 762, December 15, 1975 2/43 (5%) Cézanne skill psyche triggered inclinations
– The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 3: Association, the Emotions, and a Different Frame of Reference
– Session 762, December 15, 1975 9:10 P.M. Monday

[... 10 paragraphs ...]

Because you tie your experience so directly to time, you rarely allow yourselves any experiences, except in dreams, that seem to defy it. Your ideas about the psyche therefore limit your experience of it. Ruburt is far more lenient than most of my readers in that regard. Still, he often expects his own rather unorthodox experiences to appear in the kind of orderly garb with which you are all familiar.

[... 2 paragraphs ...]

It did not occur to him that those experiences had anything to do with this book, or that in acting so spontaneously he was following any kind of inner order. He wanted these pages to follow neatly one by one. Each of his experiences, however, demonstrates the ways in which the psyche’s direct experiences defy your prosaic concepts of time, reality, and the orderly sequence of events. They also served to point up the differences between knowledge and comprehension, and emphasize the importance of desire and of the emotions.

[... 28 paragraphs ...]

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