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NoME Part Three: Chapter 7: Session 850, May 2, 1979
idealists
idealism
kill
shalt
Thou
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Three: People Who Are Frightened of Themselves
– Chapter 7: The Good, the Bad, and the Catastrophic. Jonestown, Harrisburg, and When Is an Idealist a Fanatic?
– Session 850, May 2, 1979 9:49 P.M. Wednesday
What does that mean? In practical terms it would mean that you would not wage war for the sake of peace. It would mean that you did not kill animals in experiments, taking their lives in order to protect the sacredness of human life. That would be a prime directive: “Thou shalt not kill even in the pursuit of your ideals” — for man has killed for the sake of his ideals as much as he has ever killed for greed, or lust, or even the pursuit of power on its own merits.
(10:14.) Fanatics are inverted idealists. Usually they are vague grandiose dreamers, whose plans almost completely ignore the full dimensions of normal living. They are unfulfilled idealists who are not content to express idealism in steps, one at a time, or indeed to wait for the practical workings of active expression. They demand immediate action. They want to make the world over in their own images (louder). They cannot bear the expression of tolerance or opposing ideas. They are the most self-righteous of the self-righteous, and they will sacrifice almost anything — their own lives or the lives of others. They will justify almost any crime for the pursuit of those ends.
Idealism also presupposes “the good” as opposed to “the bad,” so how can the pursuit of “the good” often lead to the expression of “the bad?” For that, we will have to look further.
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TPS5 Session 858 (Deleted Portion) June 4, 1979
art
scene
dedication
gallery
vocational
– The Personal Sessions: Book 5 of The Deleted Seth Material
– © 2016 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session 858 (Deleted Portion) June 4, 1979 9:01 PM Monday
The second scene takes place in a large office building that represents the world and its usual pursuits.
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When he tried teaching he began to get ill, for he was afraid that he would settle for the respectable-enough prestige it afforded, give in and stop his writing and other pursuits.
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No reason was given for the pursuit itself, for he was being pursued now and then at least, by several people.
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WTH Part Two: Chapter 10: June 3, 1984
adult
pursuit
rearousing
tomorrow
worsen
– The Way Toward Health
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Starting Over
– Chapter 10: A New Beginning. Instructions, Suggestions, and Resolutions — and When to Ignore These
– June 3, 1984 3:11 P.M. Sunday
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They enjoy communication, the pursuit of knowledge, and they are filled with curiosity.
This deprives body and mind of the zest and purpose needed in order to enjoy any pursuits or activities.
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It is much better if you can imagine this endeavor more in the light of children’s play, in fact, rather than think of it as a deadly serious adult pursuit.
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NoME Part Four: Chapter 10: Session 873, August 15, 1979
idealist
ideals
impulses
condemning
geese
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Four: The Practicing Idealist
– Chapter 10: The Good, the Better, and the Best. Value Fulfillment Versus Competition
– Session 873, August 15, 1979 9:31 P.M. Wednesday
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You will not be unkind in the pursuit of your own ideals.
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You will discover your own basic good intent, and see that it has always been behind all of your actions — even in those least fitted to the pursuit of your private ideals (with gentle irony).
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That pursuit automatically gives life its zest and natural sense of excitement and drama.
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You must be reckless in pursuit of the ideal — reckless enough to insist that each step you take along the way is worthy of that ideal.
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TPS6 Deleted Session July 27, 1981
pleasure
responsibility
irresponsibility
frivolous
adolescent
– The Personal Sessions: Book 6 of The Deleted Seth Material
– © 2017 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Deleted Session July 27, 1981 9:02 PM Monday
Generally speaking, large segments of your official society do not regard the pursuit of art as responsible behavior.
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The pursuit of art was considered egotistical in a negative meaning of the word—selfish, childish or adolescent, and indeed many psychologists of the recent past considered it in the light of prolonged adolescence, or saw it as a sign of the individuals’ refusal to fully accept an adult role in life.
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(Long pause.) If you follow the pursuit of pleasure in this creative manner, then you will automatically begin to discard faulty concepts of responsibility.
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TES7 Session 283 September 5, 1966
Barbara
Goose
postcard
va
card
– The Early Sessions: Book 7 of The Seth Material
– © 2014 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session 283 September 5, 1966 9 PM Monday
If he first of all focuses his abilities in his creative pursuits, then everything else will follow.
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But he must primarily focus his energies in his creative pursuits, for these give him the exuberance that makes other pursuits possible.
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An emergency therapy will almost always bring immediate results: A week of time given to poetry, simply because this pursuit awakens in Ruburt the strongest aspects of his personality, and frees constructive energy from other layers of his personality.
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ECS1 ESP Class Session, November 25, 1969
Brad
Rachel
relationship
Amelia
overextending
– The Early Class Sessions: Book 1 Sessions 9/12/67 to 11/25/69
– © 2008 Laurel Davies-Butts
– ESP Class Session, November 25, 1969 Tuesday
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You are afraid for example that in psychological time—granted you find the physical time for it—you will take needed energy away from your physical pursuits. Now I tell you, you are overly concerned with these pursuits, that you could get the same results by trying less, by being freer.
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And you are afraid in your terms of taking energy away from these pursuits.
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WTH Part Two: Chapter 13: June 21, 1984
tirade
sirens
batch
sanity
unopened
– The Way Toward Health
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Starting Over
– Chapter 13: “Messages” from Gods, Demons, Heroes, and Other Prominent Persons — or, More Conflicting Beliefs
– June 21, 1984 4:03 P.M. Thursday
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Instantly the person might leap up, convinced that that was evidence of the pursuit of the FBI or other agency.
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NoME Part Three: Chapter 7: Session 852, May 9, 1979
Hitler
Aryan
Germany
Jews
grandiose
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Three: People Who Are Frightened of Themselves
– Chapter 7: The Good, the Bad, and the Catastrophic. Jonestown, Harrisburg, and When Is an Idealist a Fanatic?
– Session 852, May 9, 1979 9:39 P.M. Wednesday
When you are discussing the nature of good and bad, you are on tricky ground indeed, for many — or most — of man’s atrocities to man have been committed in misguided pursuit of “the good.”
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Man’s pursuit of the good, to some extent now, fathered the Inquisition and the Salem witch hunts.
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TES7 Session 329 March 25, 1967
chase
Pat
counterfeit
Claire
excitement
– The Early Sessions: Book 7 of The Seth Material
– © 2014 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session 329 March 25, 1967 8:30 PM Saturday
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You are not developing your abilities, but using vital energies in pursuit of something that you do not basically want to attain.
You need the excitement vivid in the pursuit, but this excitement will be increased by far when your energy is used to perfect and develop your own personality.
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TPS4 Deleted Session April 26, 1978
scorn
impulses
cleansing
unfair
prerogative
– The Personal Sessions: Book 4 of The Deleted Seth Material
– © 2016 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Deleted Session April 26, 1978 9:57 PM Wednesday
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The answer is that as beneficial, as desirable, as good health is, and the performance of an excellent body, man’s pursuit of other kinds of accomplishment, his equally strong desire for knowledge, and his insatiable curiosity, his pursuit of the ideal, often lead him into pathways that result in the body’s difficulties.
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TPS6 Deleted Session July 26, 1981
service
pleasure
Turkish
Ramstad
apparel
– The Personal Sessions: Book 6 of The Deleted Seth Material
– © 2017 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Deleted Session July 26, 1981 3:14 PM Sunday
The service station is significant on many levels, being used here as a particularly American symbol of the mechanical age, and also one that refers to a pursuit that is utilitarian and also provides service (as Jane said this morning): You deal directly with the public.
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A man if possible should own his own business, provide a service for the community—and, again, inventiveness or creativity were to be wedded to those pursuits.
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WTH Part One: Chapter 8: May 22, 1984
eliciting
play
forgive
children
imagination
– The Way Toward Health
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part One: Dilemmas
– Chapter 8: Childrens’ Play, Reincarnation, and Health
– May 22, 1984 4:24 P.M. Tuesday
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Children playing at cowboys and Indians, or cops and robbers, can on occasion become quite as frightened by the pursuit or the chase as they would be if they were actually caught up in such an adventure in ordinary life.
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DEaVF2 Chapter 10: Session 935, August 13, 1981
electrons
backup
genetic
species
latent
– Dreams, "Evolution", and Value Fulfillment: Volume Two
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 10: The Pleasure Principle. Group Dreams and Value Fulfillment
– Session 935, August 13, 1981 8:34 P.M. Thursday
Those sequences follow the pursuits of value fulfillment so smoothly that they can be reactivated whenever the conditions are fortunate—for even the animals are not concerned with simple survival alone, nor the plants, but with what I can only call (long pause) emotional qualities: qualities that seek a full appreciation and creative extension of those conditions of consciousness that stamp each species as itself and yet join it with all others.
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WTH Part One: Chapter 3: March 13, 1984
Joe
Margaret
daredevils
defiers
health
– The Way Toward Health
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part One: Dilemmas
– Chapter 3: Daredevils, Death-Defiers, and Health.
– March 13, 1984 4:10 P.M. Tuesday
There are other people who firmly believe that the pursuit of pleasure must lead to pain, and there are also others for whom pain itself is pleasure.
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