1 result for (book:tps5 AND session:869 AND stemmed:taught)
3/21 (14%)
mistrust
devalue
Trumansburg
tensions
reducing
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
In that system of belief many creative people have felt that safeguards were necessary, for they had been taught to fear their own abilities. In that framework of belief, Ruburt felt justified in using physical symptoms as protection on both levels. They gave some protection even from inner spontaneity, so that the inner abilities would be regulated, and they protected him also from any derogatory behavior on the part of his fellow men in the world.
That insidious mistrust of creative abilities is alarmingly dangerous to the society, and frightening to the individual. The person is taught to mistrust the most the abilities he or she instinctively trusts the most. This is bound to lead to division. Creative people are not self-destructive, but if they sometimes appear so in the western world, it is because of that division, that artificial barrier.
That vision means that such a person is taught to mistrust the very abilities that could most help bring about creative solutions. When you leave that framework of belief, such self-protecting defensive mechanisms are no longer necessary. Ruburt is beginning to get that through his head.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
