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TPS4 Deleted Session August 7, 1978 4/31 (13%) mental nasty apprehended language processes
– The Personal Sessions: Book 4 of The Deleted Seth Material
– © 2016 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Deleted Session August 7, 1978 9:51 PM Monday

[... 5 paragraphs ...]

All realities are the result of idea construction. Thinking is automatic. It is a process with which you are gifted. You can think of things that are distant, things that you have never seen. You can imagine events with which you have had no personal experience. You are used to dealing with concepts, so that your thinking is not restricted, for example, to the mental naming of an object—but you also inquire as to its origin, its meaning, its class. Your thinking itself is its own kind of invisible language, for you think before you learn language.

At that time you acquire the language of your people, and you learn to use mental concepts in a rather specialized way, and to further designate objects more specifically. Language therefore is bound to color your native thinking processes, so that it becomes almost impossible to wonder how you thought before you learned language.

[... 6 paragraphs ...]

I am hampered here by your ideas of ideas, to begin with. Again, you put the world and experience together in ways that you have learned so thoroughly that no other ways seem possible. Your beliefs about thoughts, for example, are a part of such learning, and they invisibly structure your understanding.

[... 5 paragraphs ...]

Each person has a highly unique mental environment. For various reasons not to be gone into here, your people have learned not to trust their bodies or their minds. It seems to Ruburt that his thoughts are negative a good deal of the time—naturally—and that he must take effort to change them. Of course, instead it is the other way around: his thoughts are creative and exuberant—naturally—when he leaves himself alone, and the troublesome thoughts that seem so natural now are the results of acquired mental patterns as he began to distrust his own nature, as given many times.

[... 10 paragraphs ...]

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