1 result for (book:tps4 AND heading:"delet session decemb 3 1977" AND stemmed:book)
[... 16 paragraphs ...]
(With gentle irony:) You made a remark earlier this evening to the effect that the individual could do nothing in the face of such organized behavior—a remark that by now I’m sure you regret voicing. (I laughed.) Those ideas to begin with began with individuals. The people who make and report the news are individuals. The people who read or view the news are individuals. To some extent through the books you are helping people alter their psychic organizations, to look at the world in a different fashion, and therefore to view a different world—a world in which their experiences are different than they would have been otherwise.
[... 23 paragraphs ...]
If the world seems too unsafe, you set up projections often against shadows, because you have accepted those shadows unthinkingly as facts. Those ideas, mentioned earlier, even inhibit the free creative flow of our books into the world to some extent, for you do not have as clear a channel as possible.
Never compare the sale of our books to the sale of other books. Different realities are involved—and you can then get involved with cross purposes.
[... 13 paragraphs ...]