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TMA Session Two August 11, 1980 2/65 (3%) Brenner rational deer Floyd magical
– The Magical Approach
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session Two: The Rational Approach. Scientific Hardbed Reality. The Intellect and the Magical Approach
– Session Two August 11, 1980 8:43 P.M., Monday

[... 11 paragraphs ...]

The rational approach of course suits certain kinds of people better than others, even while it still carries its disadvantages. You have been living in an industrialized, scientific society, so that the benefits and the great disadvantages of the rational approach appear everywhere in the social and political world. Artists of any kind find such an approach the least friendly, for it directly contradicts the vast thrust of man’s creativity in several important areas. You, however, and Ruburt, do have evidence that hardbed reality is quite different. In the past you have both felt at some disadvantage yourselves, feeling our work to be theoretically fascinating, creatively valid, but not necessarily containing any statement about any kind of “scientifically valid” hardbed reality. (All with much emphasis.

[... 15 paragraphs ...]

In the meantime, of course, quite valid rockbed evidence that does not fit into the picture gradually becomes discarded, ignored, thrown away. It is there but it is not used. It disappears as evidence, becomes inactive. That method of problem-solving, need I say, is a poor one, and if anything it causes far more problems than it ever solves.

[... 36 paragraphs ...]

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