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2. Did I go overboard on “Unknown” Reality? Why did I choose to do notes for it —let alone publish it in 2 volumes? Were these decisions mistakes?

[...] When I saw through the conventions and dogmas of the church, I threw the whole idea overboard. [...]

(Long pause.) Parents who are actually quite worried about their childrens’ susceptibility to illness often go overboard, stressing all kinds of sports and sports-related projects, but the children sense their parents’ unspoken fears, and they try to reassure their parents through achieving high goals or merit in sports programs.

Give us a moment… Often individuals go overboard, forgetting that ideas have their own vitality. [...]

When you have your stomach difficulties you insist, however, upon looking overboard and saying “Those waves are dangerous and threatening,” while forgetting momentarily that you are indeed quite safe aboard your craft. [...]

[...] Special diets, at particular times, restricted ones, can be of benefit in certain specialized areas of development, but there is always the danger of going overboard.

(Long pause.) Ruburt has at times gone overboard in a feeling of responsibility toward those who write in need. [...]

[...] On some occasions, for example, the woman may go overboard and exaggerate female characteristics, in which case the animus or male within comes to her aid, bringing through dream experiences an onrush of knowledge that will result in compensating malelike reactions.

[...] Unfortunately in some respects certainly he went overboard, so that the symptoms served to cut out anything he felt might be threatening to his work and to your situation.

[...] He either goes overboard and overdoes, or does nothing in that respect, and I believe in other respects. [...]

[...] On the negative side he can go overboard, fearing to cause another the slightest hurt, and hurting himself instead.

[...] (Pause; one of many in here.) Mr. Mossman has a tendency to go overboard. [...]

[...] Now you have enough sense to know not to go overboard on the one hand, and not to inhibit your abilities on the other, and your own personality and your own true feeling must dictate where that point is and no one else can tell you. [...]

[...] Caution is one thing, but sometimes I went overboard. [...]

[...] He was afraid that the spontaneous self would go overboard in that direction. [...]

[...] You went overboard, trying to influence their minds, and not influencing their minds at the same time in this life, lest they follow you blindly.

Now: In the same way that a member of such a society can go [askew], blow his stack, go overboard, commit antisocial acts, so in the same fashion such a person can instead trigger the viruses, wreck their biological social order, so that some of them suddenly become deadly, or run [amok]. [...]

[...] He has simply gone overboard in that direction. [...]

(2. Did I go overboard on “Unknown” Reality? [...]

“Boy, Seth,” I thought after tonight’s session, “did I go overboard in that piece! [...]