1 result for (book:tps4 AND heading:"delet session june 12 1978" AND stemmed:self)
5/36 (14%)
mystic
incubation
public
trust
concealed
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Now: there are gradations, of course, to creativity. Certain important kinds of creativity demand incubation periods, during which the conscious mind cannot follow the inner processes. It goes its own way, concentrated in day-to-day reality, while the inner portions of the self amass great information, perhaps, try out new organizations, and utilize the inner senses. The “results” then emerge to the conscious mind, and you have inspiration, and a creative “product.”
[... 9 paragraphs ...]
He did not want to be put in the position in which he felt he had to put his self-respect on the line. He did not like the public aspects that he felt confronted him. There was no ready fellowship in the psychic field, in which he felt he could take part. At the same time he felt that he should indeed go abroad—out into the public arena, and that he was cowardly for not doing so.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
His fear of the spontaneous self originally developed simply because that self seemed so different from other people that he tried to keep it within bounds. He tried to tie it to writing alone, which was the closest approximation he could make to creative conventional activity, while still allowing himself expression. His own abilities, again, kept working through all of the frameworks, however, and none of them could content him.
[... 7 paragraphs ...]
Your society teaches a basic distrust of the self, but even then from their organizations people look for a sense of approval. While relying upon himself, Ruburt still had no guidelines, and to some extent he felt that he had to rein himself in, to go cautiously, and he began to doubt himself. Even science fiction was not large enough, imaginatively, to contain his abilities, and when those abilities did indeed flower he was afraid he was more of an outcast than ever.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
The pendulum suggestions are meant to reinforce the basic trust in the self, and in the self’s abilities to handle experience without enforcing artificial armor. Both of you chose to do what you are doing, and accepted your historical period.
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