1 result for (book:tps5 AND heading:"delet session novemb 22 1978" AND stemmed:seth)
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Jones
Jonestown
suicide
temple
quickie
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(I asked that Seth comment on my tooth-extraction hang-ups—involving the attendant soreness and my reactions to the whole affair—as well as the mouth-breathing difficulty. The latter is much improved, incidentally, and the gum is healing okay as far as I can tell. Yet I still wondered whether I wasn’t asking that the healing take place too rapidly, considering the large cavities in the gum to be filled.
(Jane wanted Seth to discuss her own progress—which continues, if too slowly for her. Tonight, using the typing table as a “walker,” she walked the fastest yet during her exercise period with it. A good sign.
(We also speculated that Seth might refer to what may be called the “Jonestown Affair,” or something like it. This had erupted in a mass suicide, involving over 400 Americans, in the community of Jonestown in what was formerly British Guyana, in South America. A US congressman was also murdered, along with media network people, etc. The sect, called the People’s Temple, had been created by Jim Jones, a charismatic fundamentalist who had eventually been hounded out of the U.S. for many reasons, to then set up his town for his devoted religious followers in Guyana. The whole thing had a weird unbelievability about it, as Jane and I watched the TV reports and read—and saved – the newspaper accounts.
(Actually, the affair is a perfect example of much of the material Seth has been going into in his latest book on the mass culture and mind. To Jane and me, it seemed as if his material was being enacted in real life as the ideal demonstration of Seth’s material. The tragedy, if one wants to call it that, would make an excellent book in itself, and many probably will be written about it. It certainly furnishes ideal subject matter for the media. We also think that these books-to-come will not manage to penetrate the forces behind the phenomenon nearly as well as Seth could, but that Seth won’t be carrying out such a project, either.
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(“Good evening, Seth.”)
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(“No. I guess not.” I figured that Seth must be giving a short session for a reason, or reasons, so I didn’t ask any.)
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(“Thank you very much, Seth.”
(9:41 PM. Seth’s “quickie” sounds very interesting. I dare say that Jane and I could come up with some questions of our own, too.
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