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It is one of the reasons. The other reason has to do with other lives in which you were musically inclined. [...]
If you would look within yourself you would find out why, or if you ask for a private session sometime I might give you some hints, but you have not asked for one, and you have not asked for one for a good reason. [...]
([Arnold:] “Is that life the reason why I like African music now?”)
[...] So far in our discussion of his own situation, we have not for good reason touched upon certain material because he was not ready for it.
If there are angry winter roots / within my many seasons /
a wildness untempered / by reason’s ways— /
a force, weirder and / more elemental than /
autumns demented fervor / (raging yet glorious, orange and /
green leaves splintered, / falling everywhere) /
then, so there is.
And as autumns fierce / moods have their /
reasons—in nature’s / deeper sanity / so must…/
my undeviating / direction— /
Though my thoughts’ leaves singly / seem separate /
they ride in one elemental / force / carried weightless— /
Then with them let me / be so supported /
though my tumultuous journeys carry me, / like them, /
above stormy treetops.
[...]
(Several times during the last week I’d mentioned to Jane that we should get more information from Seth on her eyes—insisting upon more specific reasons why they were so protuberant. [...]
[...] The whole point is to trust that they will come, in whatever fashion, but in a reasonable time, without making other qualifications. [...]
Before, for whatever reasons, already given, you were each content with the status quo. [...]
[...] It was just that no matter what one said to him, he replied in the same reasonable, well-spoken, well-mannered tone of voice, which was quite pleasant. [...] At the same time, he accepted almost without question whatever development or course events took: When he realized he couldn’t see Jane, he accepted it finally, in a very reasonable manner. [...]
[...] There are many psychological reasons behind such a psychological truth.
Without any acceptance of painful stimuli the structure could never maintain itself, for the atoms and molecules within the structure constantly accept painful stimuli, and suffer even joyfully, their own destruction; being aware of their own separateness within action, and aware of their reality within all action, and not having complicated “I” structures to maintain, there is no reason for them to fear destruction.
Now, however, you understand the reason why even an impeding action is literally accepted by the personality as a portion of the self, and why therefore efforts must be made that will coax the personality to give up any portion of itself, if progress is to be made. [...]
There are other reasons, however, that have added up to a feeling of powerlessness on Ruburt’s part in regard to his physical condition. [...]
Your pendulum sessions have been of benefit, and one reason is because they represent a united, joint and determined effort on both of your parts, and Ruburt feels your support. [...]
[...] In our opinion tonight’s session did, however, and for a number of reasons that will become obvious as it’s read. [...]
(Her comments fit in well with Seth’s closing statement about the difficulty of translation; otherwise, we couldn’t find a reason for her reactions in the session material itself. [...]
[...] There are reasons—creative reasons—why she can’t walk now, or write in longhand. We insist upon knowing what those reasons are. [...]
[...] Now his desires and intents have set it upon a healthy, reasonable setting, and the inner processes are automatically activated to bring about the normal quickening of his body, as before his intent led to the body’s automatic slowness.
[...] I’d grown very angry as the material unfolded—angry at that portion of Jane’s psyche for clinging so tenaciously to such a set of beliefs, for whatever reasons, and angry at myself for not understanding any better than she did their extent and depth, and just how damaging they could be in ordinary terms. [...]
[...] The reasons for it will become apparent.
[...] Nevertheless, for many reasons tonight seemed auspicious, and there are a few things that I would like to add.
[...] You will understand the reasons for this at a later time but it is necessary, I will not say unfortunately, that you work, and that you give much to this material and to these ideas.
[...] The intellect can then realize that it does not have to go it all alone: Everything does not have to be reasoned out, even to be understood.
[...] It collects evidence, then, to prove its point, because the rational mind, as you understand it, must have an acceptable reason for everything (underlined) (all intently).
[...] Coupled with this is the idea that magic, as we call it, reflects a basic part of our natural mental equipment and abilities, but that our present course of action, our focusing upon the material and the intellectual — the ‘reasonable’ portions of our psyche — has created artificial divisions, in which magic seems quite ‘unreasonable’ or unreal. [...]
[...] That’s the course our species has chosen during much of our recorded history, so far, and for many reasons.