2 results for (book:ur2 AND session:721 AND stemmed:experienc)
(I asked Jane to write a paragraph about the predominant mode of consciousness she’d experienced during the long session, and here’s what she produced:)
(Pause at 11:13.) If you are glutted — sated — with a steak dinner, for example, in America or Europe, then you are also famished in another portion of the world, experiencing life from an entirely different viewpoint. You speak of races of men. You do not understand how consciousness is distributed in that regard. You have counterparts10 of yourself.
1. The series of visions that made up my overall perception of the black woman in Jamaica were the most vivid I’ve experienced yet. For me they had a most unique, thrilling, immediate quality, and strong emotional involvement. As I sat at the typewriter in my studio, I was flooded with perceptions of myself as such a woman: Pursued by an armed English military officer, she ran for her life down a hilly village street. She wasn’t especially young. Her — my — name? Maumee, or Mawmee — an illiterate but shrewd, very strong personality who was acting in rebellion against the colonial authority of England in the early 1800’s. She escaped that time, and lived to struggle often against such forces on the island.