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▼ TMA Session Six August 25, 1980 1/45 (2%) Mitzi intellect collar flea identify
– The Magical Approach
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session Six: Animals and Reasoning. Things Beyond One’s Control
– Session Six August 25, 1980 8:49 P.M., Monday

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One of the intellect’s main purposes is to give you a conscious choice in a world of probabilities. To do that properly the intellect is to make clear, concise decisions, on its level, of matters that are its concern, and therefore to present its own picture of reality to add to the entire construct. (Long pause.) On the one hand you have been told to identify yourselves almost completely with your intellects. On the other hand, you have been taught that the intellect, the “flower of consciousness,” is a frail, vulnerable adjunct — again, a chance creation, without meaning and without support — without support because you believe that “beneath it” lie “primitive, animalistic, bloody instincts,” against which reason must exert what strength it has.

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