1 result for (book:tma AND heading:"session two august 11 1980" AND stemmed:chosen)
2/65 (3%)
Brenner
rational
deer
Floyd
magical
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
(I told Jane, joking, that the Democrats might achieve a show of unity in their convention, but that come election time in November they might end up saying something like: “Well, we lost but we were united” against Reagan. To me the political situation, meaning a choice between Carter and Reagan, is almost intolerable, and I wondered why our country had chosen this time of travail, as they say.
[... 55 paragraphs ...]
“The conscious idea of magic, then, is a mask, or contrived version, of the psyche’s innate clairvoyant, telepathic, and precognitive abilities. We permit distorted versions of those attributes to surface as magic, as entertainment — which thus relieves us of the need to take them seriously. That’s the course our species has chosen during much of our recorded history, so far, and for many reasons.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
