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▼ TMA Session Eight September 3, 1980 1/27 (4%) government citizens caretaker paranoid magical
– The Magical Approach
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session Eight: Nature as Man’s Caretaker. Natural Magical Reasoning and Trust
– Session Eight September 3, 1980 8:55 P.M., Wednesday

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The people count upon the government to realistically define the conditions of the world, to have proper intelligence so that the activities in foreign lands are known, to keep up proper communication with other governments, and so forth. Now in some important respects the reasoning mind is like the government in this analogy. If the people in power are paranoid, then they overestimate the dangers of any given world situation. They overreact, or overmobilize, using a disproportionate amount of energy and time for defense, and taking energies away from other projects. The reasoning mind acts in the same fashion when paranoid beliefs are in power. It therefore tells all of the citizens — or cells of the body — to mobilize for action, to be on the alert, to pare down all but necessary activities, and so forth.

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