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TMA Session Five August 20, 1980 2/40 (5%) George Laurel target magical rational
– The Magical Approach
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session Five: Styles of Thought. Combining the Magical Approach and the So-called Rational Approach
– Session Five August 20, 1980 9:08 P.M., Wednesday

[... 15 paragraphs ...]

(Pause.) Those goals are usually conceptualized desires, and once formed they act in a fashion like magnets, drawing from those vast fields of interrelatedness the kinds of conditions best suited to their fulfillment. The intellect alone cannot bring about the fulfillment of those goals. The intellect alone cannot bring about one motion of the body. It must count upon those other properties that it does indeed set into motion — that spontaneous array of inner complexity, that orderly magic. Period.

[... 5 paragraphs ...]

I will continue describing the ways in which the two approaches work together. The main point I want to make is, however, the fact that your private source of power is a portion of that greater field of interrelatedness, in which your being is securely couched. It is not something you have to strain after. It was effortlessly yours at birth, and before, and it carries with it its own emotional and intuitive comprehensions — comprehensions that can indeed support you throughout all of your physical existence. If you understand that, then in a large manner many of your fears will jointly vanish.

[... 17 paragraphs ...]

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