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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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The scientific framework of reference has become equated with the term “rational thinking,” to such an extent that any other slant of thought automatically seems to be irrational. Thought has become, in that regard, too specialized, prejudiced, and inflexible.

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There is no separate field that combines all of that information, or applies the facts of one discipline to the facts of another discipline, so overall, science, with its brand of rational thought, can offer no even, suggestive, hypothetical, comprehensive ideas of what reality is. It seems that each individual is in effect isolated in certain vital regards — given, say, a genetic heritage and a certain amount of unspecified energy with which to run the body’s machinery (intently). Intent, purpose, or desire do not apply in that picture.

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