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10. In terms of linear time, and in keeping with Seth’s material in this session, Jane and I obviously think his concepts are both old and new — while being “totally original,” as Sue Watkins noted.
“How many people? Very few would take this amount of their camouflage time to deal with it. A peculiar set of abilities and interests is required for work like this to be even partially successful, or accepted by the personalities involved. For many it would be difficult to maintain discipline and balance, while allowing for the necessary freedoms that are involved. That is, this is a controlled experiment, with both of you allowing yourselves certain freedoms of control in some instances and not in others. This is no easy trick. Is that what you meant?”
“All religions are distortive. For that matter, much of your science is distortive. Both arrive at approximations, at best, of reality. Religion has been the cause of much prejudice and cruelty, but the bombs over Hiroshima were not caused by the Catholic Saint Teresa showering down any roses. Science is apt to turn into another religion, if it has not done so already. The distortions in science and religion have been truly disastrous. Any fanaticism is vicious, one-sided, and limiting, causing an alarming shrinkage of focus that is explosive and dangerous.
[...] As stated, this makes the second time that I’ve had an experience involving the violent death of a Roman soldier in the earlier part of the first century A.D. (I never did arrive at names for those two militant individuals.) Perhaps both instances are merely my own psychological reflections of present concerns or challenges, although I think that more is involved. [...]