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TMA Session Six August 25, 1980 3/45 (7%) 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

[... 9 paragraphs ...]

New sentence: That particular blend of rational thinking with which your society is familiar takes it more or less for granted, then, that man’s identity as a species, and the identity of the individual, is first and foremost connected with the intellect. You identify yourselves with your intellect, primarily, casting aside as much as possible other equally vital elements of your personhood.

[... 8 paragraphs ...]

Ideally, however, children finally claim their feelings and their thoughts as their own. They identify naturally with both, finding each valid and vital. By the time you are an adult, however, you have been taught to disconnect your identity from your feelings as much as possible, and to think of your personhood in terms of your intellectual orientation. Your identity seems to be in your head. Your feelings and your mental activity therefore appear, often, quite contradictory. You try to solve all problems through the use of reasoning alone.

[... 3 paragraphs ...]

(9:46.) Despite all of that, men and women still find the solutions to many of their problems by rediscovering the larger sense of identity1 — a sense of identity that accepts the intuitions and the feelings, the dreams and the magic hopes as vital characteristics, not adjuncts, of personhood. When I tell you to remember your own natural persons, I do then want to remind you not to identify with your intellects alone, but to enlarge your scopes of identity. Automatically those other, often-shunted-aside characteristics begin to add their richness, fulfillment, and vitality to your lives effortlessly.

[... 21 paragraphs ...]

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