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TMA Session Four August 18, 1980 2/59 (3%) 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

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Science delegates the world of nature as the realm of exterior natural events. Its view of nature is therefore mechanistic. The natural self, however, like the rest of nature, possesses a rich dimension of inside psychological depth, that science, because of its own definitions, cannot perceive. Telepathy and clairvoyance, for example, are a part of natural effects, but they belong to a nature so much more expansive than science’s definitions that they have been made to appear as highly unnatural eccentricities of behavior, rather than as natural components of consciousness.

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“Later in the dream Rob is reminded of this incident by something someone says, either on TV or in the room — signifying a different mobility of consciousness, almost a dream within a dream, and also establishing the fact that physical and magical events are related.

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