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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

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When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement. Consider a hypothetical goal as a target. When properly used, the intellect imagines the target and imaginatively then attains it. If it were a physical target, the person would stand [bow and] arrow in hand, thinking only of hitting the bull’s-eye, mentally concentrating upon it, making perhaps some learned gestures — proper footing or whatever — and the body’s magical properties would do the rest.

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(9:52.) He has switched his attention from the target, of course, completely. He has projected upon the present event the picture of his fears, rather than the picture of his original intent. His body, responding to his mental images and his thoughts, brings out actions that mirror his confusion.

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