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(12:09.) Like I said before you went out, I feel as if some ancient swarm of wasps’ nests (long pause) have finally been touched upon or stirred up—or of angry energy that had been stored in those portions of my body. And certainly to some extent they also had a strongly sexual cast.
I feel as if this is the first sign that those psychological and physical areas are being touched or allowed to relax or release. That the soreness and so forth —really wild—was a reaction as the swirling energy was stirred (very long pause at 12:13) and allowed to escape at least partially—probably only as much as you could allow at once.
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The name simply seemed to stand for all of man’s agonizing reach for greatness, and yet for the anguish that always seemed to separate himself. But in any case I felt like a divided Israel, crying out for the people to come together in peace. And what it meant was that Israel itself was a simile for the individual —that is, one person—who was (long pause) composed of so many fantasies and dreams and prophecies and hopes and angers and fears.
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(Long pause at 12:21.) It was and is pretty wild. That’s all....
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I guess I feel that Israel.... (long pause).... that the tale of Israel, with all of its wars and so forth, and its historical and biblical past, represents some ancient brilliant knowledge that man once had, of the self being so diverse as to behave as a nation of a million individuals, each looking for their homeland.
(Long pause at 12:25.) But through the years the story itself lost its meaning for people. But the term Israel still stands for one individual, along with its multitudinous parts, and all of the colorful, feared, anguished or enticing heroes of the bible represent elements of each person’s soul, personified, set momentarily alive in myth.
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