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DEaVF2 Chapter 10: Session 933, August 7, 1981 5/46 (11%) Bahais pleasure tribe dreamers Shiite
– Dreams, "Evolution", and Value Fulfillment: Volume Two
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Chapter 10: The Pleasure Principle. Group Dreams and Value Fulfillment
– Session 933, August 7, 1981 8:22 P.M. Friday

THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE.
GROUP DREAMS AND VALUE FULFILLMENT

[... 11 paragraphs ...]

Next chapter heading (10), to be called: “The Pleasure Principle. Group Dreams and Value Fulfillment.”

[... 6 paragraphs ...]

Psychologists often speak of the needs of man. Here I would like to speak instead of the pleasures of man, for one of the distinguishing characteristics of value fulfillment is its pleasurable effect. It is not so much that man or nature seeks to satisfy needs, but to exuberantly, rambunctiously seek pleasure—and through following its pleasure each organism finds and satisfies its needs as well. Far more is involved in the experience of life, however, than the satisfaction of bare needs, for life is everywhere possessed with a desire toward quality—a quality that acknowledges the affirming characteristics of pleasure itself.

In your terms, there is a great pleasure to be found in both work and play, in excitement and calm, in exertion and rest (long pause), yet the word “pleasure” itself has often fallen into disrepute, and is frowned at by the virtuous.

(Long pause at 9:00.) One of the main purposes of dreaming, therefore, is to increase man’s pleasure, which means to increase the quality of living itself. Dreams are mental work and play combined, psychic and emotional rich creative dramas. They also involve you in the most productive of enterprises as you begin to play with versions of events that are being considered for physical actualization, as on a personal level you “view” the probable events which your family, tribe, organization, community and country will actualize.

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