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NotP Chapter 6: Session 777, May 24, 1976 2/29 (7%) visual language merged animal cognition
– The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 6: “The Language of Love.” Images and the Birth of Words
– Session 777, May 24, 1976 9:45 P.M. Monday

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(Long pause.) In ways most difficult to explain, man “absorbed” an animal’s spirit before he killed it, so that the spirit of the animal merged with his own. In using the animal’s flesh, then, the hunter believed that he was giving the animal a new focus of existence. He could draw on the animal’s strength, and the animal could join in human consciousness. Nature and spirit therefore were one.

(A two-minute pause at 10:22. The last paragraph of material may give clues to human behavior today: Man kills animals — and eats them — for reasons he’s consciously forgotten. His killing today would be based on at least intuitive understanding…. One wonders whether the same reasoning might apply when man kills man….)

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