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TMA Session Fifteen October 1, 1980 2/46 (4%) daytime rhythms dinner agriculture hypothesis
– The Magical Approach
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session Fifteen: The Natural Person and the Natural Use of Time
– Session Fifteen October 1, 1980 9:31 P.M., Wednesday

[... 24 paragraphs ...]

(Long pause.) You have settled upon a system that seems to be naturally based, the exclusive results of your historic past, one in which your main activities are daytime ones. It seems only natural that early man, for example, carried on all of his main activities in the day, hiding after dark. (Pause.) As a matter of fact, however, early man was a natural night dweller, and early developed the uses of fire for illumination, carrying on many activities after dark, when many natural predators slept. He also hunted very well in the dark, cleverly using all of his senses with high accuracy — the result of learning processes that are now quite lost.

(10:00.) In any case, man was not by any means exclusively a daytime creature, and fires within caves extended activities far into the night. It was agriculture that turned him more into a daytime rhythm, and for some time many beliefs lingered that resulted from earlier nighttime agricultural practices.

[... 19 paragraphs ...]

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