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▼ 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

[... 7 paragraphs ...]

Now: The intellect is far more socially oriented than is generally understood.

[... 3 paragraphs ...]

Your species shares with the other species a feeling of kinship for its kind. There is a great give-and-take of ideas. You end up, then, with a consensus, generally speaking, as to what a reasonable picture of agreed-upon reality is. Your system has frowned upon many experiences, considering them eccentric behavior in an adverse fashion, since your belief systems have so regimented behavior, and so narrowly defined sanity. (Long pause.) The intellect, I want to stress, is socially oriented. It is peculiarly suited, of course, to react to cultural information. (Pause.) It wants to see the world as it is seen by the minds of others. Through that kind of action it helps form your cultural environment, the civilization of which you are justly proud.

[... 21 paragraphs ...]

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