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[...] I am not speaking of some dumb instinct, but instead of an intuitive knowing, a high intelligence different from your own, but amazingly complex, with which other species are equipped.²

[...] The trivialities and moods, the feelings of morning and twilight would be extinguished—so he thought as you told him, and so against many of his natural instincts he tried to obey.

[...] For the time will come when reincarnational information will be considered as you now think an instinct is. [...]

[...] Therefore science, for example, says that creatures — except for man — operate by blind instinct, and that term is meant to explain all of the complicated behavior of the other species. [...]

In those terms (underlined), it is quite as truthful to say — as I have said before — that man’s intellect is also instinctive. [...]

[...] We instinctively know that disasters mimic the birth and death of cells within our bodies—we instinctively know that all life survives death, that death is the bursting of life into new forms, hence our fascination with accidents and fires. [...]

“I use the word ‘methods’ because you understand it, but actually we are speaking about an approach to life, a magical or natural approach that is man’s version of the animal’s natural instinctive behavior in the universe. [...]

[...] And in this reality [the one you and Ruburt know] Ruburt instinctively felt apart from that house.

[...] She jumped up in mid-delivery, brushing instinctively at something she couldn’t have seen. [...]

[...] In many cases the other is a younger individual who is more resilient, has more energy, a more instinctive use of the life force, who is better able to bear the problems for the whole unit, and who will actually escape from them. [...]

[...] It seeks those channels that it instinctively knows will yield expression. [...]

(“On a biological basis, impulses are like [or can be compared to] emotional instincts; individually tuned, so that ideally impulses are stimuli toward action—that results as a consequence of complicated inner ‘unconscious’ computations. [...]

[...] You are telling it to change, when all of its instincts, you see, are to maintain stability, and in your country, at least, that stability has been large enough and flexible enough so that you are being financially rewarded, to whatever degree, for promoting ideas that run counter to the deepest beliefs of that system.

[...] Its “instincts” are not as set as with the animals. [...]

[...] Have him trust his instincts. [...]

[...] They do this “instinctively.”

(Pause.) You say little, for example, if you note that spiders make webs instinctively because spiders must eat insects, and that the best web-maker will be the fittest kind of spider to survive. [...]

[...] Each actor knows this instinctively, and there are periods set and allowed for within the play itself in which each actor retires in order to refresh himself. [...]

[...] Science says that there is no will, yet it assigns to nature the will to survive—or rather, a will-less instinct to survive. [...]

The basic personality would be fearful of such communications, knowing instinctively the weakness of the ego. [...]

[...] Jane did push for the Elmira move, feeling instinctively that Sayre was a mistake.

[...] He also, to a much greater degree than you, never trusted his instincts, although they were very strong. [...]

(10:12.) If men were considered equal, however, the ideas of Darwin and Freud came along to alter the meaning of equality, for men were not equal in honor and integrity and creativity—or heroism: —they were equal in dishonor (louder), selfishness, greed, and equally endowed with a killer instinct that now was seen to be a natural characteristic from man’s biological past. [...]