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▼ TES5 Session 218 December 15, 1965 2/427 (0%) Priestley Peggy Dunne San seminar
– The Early Sessions: Book 5 of The Seth Material
– © 2013 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session 218 December 15, 1965 9 PM Wednesday as Scheduled

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When the individual reaches Priestley’s time three, then he is left with little individuality. Priestley’s vision of the birds and the life spirit is not too much different from nirvana. At least only in degree, and this simply will not do.

It is true that Priestley speaks in terms of consciousness being retained at this stage, but a consciousness devoid of personality is an odd bird indeed. The personality structure changes, it is true, but consciousness of overall identities within any given unit of consciousness is always retained. There is no blending or merging, willy-nilly, into a gigantic ever-rushing-on spirit of life. And the spirit of life in these terms cannot be considered as something apart and separate from, and outside of, those consciousnesses which illuminate it, and through which they are illuminated. And here is our second difficulty with Priestley.

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