Now: The intellect is far more socially oriented than is generally understood.

[...] It is amazingly resilient, in that according to the belief structures of any given historical period, it can orient itself along the lines of those beliefs, using all of its reasoning abilities to bring such a world picture into focus, collecting data that agree, and rejecting what does not.

[...] (Long pause.) The intellect, I want to stress, is socially oriented. [...]

Your scientists are, generally now, intellectually oriented, believing in reason above the intuitions, taking it for granted that those qualities are opposites. [...]

[...] It is a universe endowed with male characteristics as these appear in the male-female orientations of your history. [...]

[...] In those terms, the male-oriented intellect wants to order the universe, name its parts, and so forth. [...]

9. Bed north-south orientation?

[...] Numerous but subtle instances of “magical” orientation kept appearing in our lives. [...]

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—and evidently some minds do work in such ways that anything not rooted in the “objective, external” world literally does not exist; this orientation includes the belief, the “fact,” that even all thinking or feeling is so related to that outsideness, or is so a part of it, that there is no separation possible.

[...] The precise orientation of that conceptualizing, and the precise orientation of the thinking patterns, wait for certain physical triggers received from the parents and the environment after birth, but the processes of conceptualization and of thought are already established. [...]

[...] These particular fetus-oriented dreams are most difficult to describe, for they are actually involved with forming the contours of the individual consciousness. [...]

[...] The ability to use language is also genetically built-in, through the precise orientation, again, with the physical triggering of the parents’ native language. [...]

[...] Most of you identify with your daily physically oriented self. [...]

[...] It is you, so focused in physical reality, who do not listen to its voice, who do not understand that it is the great psychological strength from which your physically oriented self springs.

[...] If, on the other hand, your intuitions and creative instincts are allowed freedom, then they communicate some knowledge of greater dimensions to this most physically oriented portion of your personality.

The emotional intellect for example is not time-oriented, and this alone makes no sense to the physical brain. It finds it highly difficult to assimilate any information not time-oriented, therefore it labels it as meaningless. [...]

[...] Most of its richness and depth would not be perceived by the physically oriented brain.

These EE units also operate as fields, as waves, or as particles, as the units of consciousness do—but in your terms they are closer to physical orientation. [...]

[...] In those terms (underlined), each portion of physically oriented consciousness sees reality and experience from its own privileged viewpoint, about which it seems all else revolves, even though this may involve a larger generalized field than your own, or a smaller one.

As all of this occurred, consciousness took on more and more specific orientations, greater organizations at your end. [...]

First sentence: Your reality exists independently of your physically oriented consciousness, but while you are a creature your awareness must be interpreted through your neurological structure and your corporeal aliveness. [...] Biologically the reach and capacity of your physically oriented consciousness is directly connected with the length of your days and nights, and of course with the seasons. [...]

There are many hints and signs picked up by the body itself — alterations in air pressure, magnetic orientation in terms of balance, minute electrical differentiations of which the skin itself is aware. [...]

[...] These, however, do not have to be trained to a particular space-time orientation.

Alter your time orientation in other such exercises. [...]

This means that to some extent the imagination must operate outside of the senses’ precise orientation. [...]

[...] The drama itself is a psychological phenomenon in a way, for each physically oriented self feels thrust alone into a strange environment, without knowing its origins or destination or even the reason for its own existence.

[...] It forms its truths into physically oriented data with which the ego can deal. [...]

You believed that you should be outgoing, vigorous, somewhat competitive, and you believed you should be socially oriented, while at the same time you believed that those things conflicted in a basic way with other drives. [...] In periods of intense inner activity that were enjoyable and productive, you disapproved of yourselves because you were not at the same time socially oriented, vigorously involved in exercises, or physically oriented pursuits, and so you disapproved of yourselves.

These ideas, with the last session, have to do with Ruburt’s partitioning of his spontaneity, for he also felt that you had to choose one way or the other, and that to protect your subjective freedom you had to inhibit the externally oriented spontaneity that was sanctioned by most of the society, because you could not do both. [...]

[...] However, in this world you are surrounded by familiar objects, details, and ideas, and your main orientation is physical so that you can operate through habit alone even when you are not as well focused within your reality as you should be.

[...] In this way you are still directing it and learning to orient yourself. [...]

[...] As you continue with this exercise over a period of time you will be able to go further away, orienting yourself as you grow more familiar with the feeling of your mind. [...]

The male-female, female-male orientation is not nearly as separate as it appears to be in your present experience. [...]

[...] That psychological orientation will lead the species to another, equally unique kind of consciousness.

[...] They became state-oriented. [...]

Again, all love is not sexually oriented. [...]

[...] Now your consciousness, quite simply, is not physically alive, physically oriented, for exactly the same amount of time as it is physically alive and oriented. [...]

[...] They are familiar with the projection of consciousness, with the sensations involved, and they help orient those who will not be returning to the physical body.

([Theodore:] “About problems, I’m wondering whether to make a distinction between a problem which is a personal thing in nature that we must solve on our own, and a problem that is not so personally oriented but community oriented where the decision you have affects someone else and can be a wrong solution. [...]

[...] As a rule they are highly physically oriented, their function being to acquaint the physically adapted ego with some inner data.

[...] Behind thoughts are images, which are more basic but still physically oriented. [...]

[...] However I am speaking of psychological and psychic atmospheres, and this area is sufficiently distant from Ruburt’s physically oriented self so that the communications can be relatively understood.

It is also in a way distant from my own environment, for in my own environment I would have some difficulties in relating information in physically oriented terms. [...]