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▼ SS Appendix: ESP Class Session: Tuesday, February 9, 1971 2/39 (5%) Bernice predestination aristocratic slums justification
– Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Appendix
– ESP Class Session: Tuesday, February 9, 1971

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Your main point of contention is brought about by the emotional barriers that are caused by the difference in terms. It is as if you choose to work for a day in the slums. It would be ridiculous for you to choose to do this, and then say to yourself, “Why did I choose to work in the slums? I would prefer to work on Fifth Avenue.” You know the reason, and your entire identity knows the reason. You hide it from the present self simply to insure the fact that the present reality is not a pretended one.

A rich man who tries to be poor for a day to learn what poverty is learns little, because he cannot forget the wealth that is available to him. Though he eats the same poor fare as the poor man, and lives in the same poor house for a day — or for a year or five years — he knows he has his mansion to return to. So you hide these things from yourself so that you can relate. You forget your home so that you can return to it enriched.

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