1 result for (book:tma AND heading:"session seven august 28 1980" AND stemmed:evid)

TMA Session Seven August 28, 1980 2/34 (6%) intellect charcoal cultural beliefs weather
– The Magical Approach
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session Seven: The Intellect as a Cultural Artifact. Creating One’s Own Experience
– Session Seven August 28, 1980 8:37 P.M., Thursday

[... 9 paragraphs ...]

Obviously, the mind can use its reasoning abilities, for example, to come to the conclusion that there is a single god behind the functioning of the world, that there are many gods, that divinity is a fantasy, and that the world itself springs from no reasonable source. New sentence: Like statistics, the reasoning abilities can be used to come to almost any conclusion. This is done, again, by taking into consideration within any given system of reasoning only the evidence that agrees with the system’s premises.

[... 9 paragraphs ...]

He continued, however, to remind himself that he was not going to worry about tomorrow today, regardless. He told himself that the prediction might be wrong, and he began with his intellect to pile up evidence that could in one way or another bring about a different, more beneficial experience. He did this by recognizing the way he had earlier been building up the picture in the old manner, by collecting all the evidence that fitted it. He used the same process, only for a more beneficial picture, and the process works. You have only to become aware of it.

[... 13 paragraphs ...]

Similar sessions

DEaVF2 Chapter 9: Session 922, October 13, 1980 Helper knower protection dams artistry
TMA Session Six August 25, 1980 Mitzi intellect collar flea identify
NoME Part Two: Chapter 4: Session 825, March 6, 1978 confounds Framework reason universe predisposed
TMA Session Eight September 3, 1980 government citizens caretaker paranoid magical