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TMA Session Eight September 3, 1980 2/27 (7%) 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 thinking mind to a large degree directs the activity of great spontaneous forces, [with] energy-cellular organization being, say, the captain (pause) of the body’s great energy sources. The reasoning mind defines, makes judgments, deals with the physical objects of the world, and also with the cultural interpretations current in its time.

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There is no such thing as a killer instinct, with the implications and meaning that man gives that term (intently). At levels almost impossible to describe to you in your adulthoods, all infants, for example, know that they are born into the environmental niches that suit them and no others — [that are] tailored to their requirements. You can usually see in a superficial fashion how animals under “natural conditions” fit into their environments so perfectly, so that their needs and desires and equipment meet and merge with the characteristics of the environment. It is not nearly as easy to see that the same applies to man and his mental and physical environment, his town or country or culture, but the infant trusts from the very first moment.

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