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TMA Session Four August 18, 1980 4/59 (7%) Gus glass magical assumptions door
– The Magical Approach
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session Four: Science and Science’s Picture. Desire as Action
– Session Four August 18, 1980 9:10 P.M., Monday

SCIENCE AND SCIENCE’S PICTURE. DESIRE AS ACTION.

[... 17 paragraphs ...]

Now in your dream you got the feeling of that kind of work, or action. It is the given power of the world, the given power of nature. It is the directed force of value fulfillment.2 In other terms it is of course the energy of All That Is. The trouble is that the rational view of life has separated man from a sense of his own power source. When he has a problem, the rational approach to its solution seems the only answer, and often, of course, it is no answer at all.

[... 2 paragraphs ...]

This will allow you to include the feeling of inner, magical “work” into your calculations. It would also begin (underlined) to give you a feeling for the magical support that upholds you both, and your lives — the support that Ruburt can count upon, and that can bring about the solution to his physical difficulties. Here, again, the vital word is ease or effortlessness. If you want to (long pause) feed a dog in the physical world — and he is on the other side of the door — you must open it. In the inner world you or the dog can walk through the door without effort, because desire is action. Desire is action.

[... 35 paragraphs ...]

My dream of August 16 was difficult to visually present: How could I show my contact with Gus through the seemingly solid glass — show that, as Seth says, desire is action? I first sketched the dream late in August, but did’t finish the painting of it until December.

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