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ECS4 ESP Class Session, July 6, 1971 8/53 (15%) Joel Bette divinity listen Astor
– The Early Class Sessions: Book 4 Sessions 5/25/71 to 1/25/72
– © 2010 Laurel Davies-Butts
– ESP Class Session, July 6, 1971 Tuesday

([Jane:] “I think if we leave our experiences at face value, we’re not learning all we can. I think in that simple drama that went on between Bette and Joel, see, there’s all kinds of answers that we haven’t even begun to reach yet. And then to accept them at face value can lead us astray. A fantastic strength and energy in Bette over there, and in Joel. And to understand what they really did demands that we go beyond stereotyped conceptions. And that each demands on both of their parts great self-examination and understanding. To accept what each of you are trying to do in your own way .

[... 10 paragraphs ...]

([Bette Zahorian:] “And I just sat here for five minutes telling you to put that goddamn pen down, that he’s been banging away, and he finally did it.”

[... 1 paragraph ...]

([Bette:] “If you kept it up, I was just going to forget the thought and then get up and grab it.”

[... 3 paragraphs ...]

([Bette:] “I want to say one little thing. When Bill came through, certainly we all looked. It was somebody that some of us here, I hadn’t heard before. I talked to him because he talked to me. If he hadn’t, I wouldn’t have pushed in to talk to Bill. I enjoyed talking with him. But as far as thinking that I could learn any more by listening to him than I could from coming here, or just listening to myself  because if Joel is capable of doing this, so am I. If he can look in, so can I.”

[... 3 paragraphs ...]

([Bette:] “I don’t think that’s fair to say that we all did that Jane. I didn’t. I looked. Certainly I looked.”

[... 3 paragraphs ...]

([Bette to Jane:] “But you have said in class to Joel, anytime that he feels he wants to let Bill come through, by all means do it. Am I right?”

([Jane:] “Yea, Bette.”

[... 16 paragraphs ...]

(To Joel and Bette.) You escaped from your current physical roles in class last week, our cousin of Richelieu, and our friend who loves the idiot flower, you experienced your emotional reality on an entirely different level. You encountered your own meaning and in different context.

[... 8 paragraphs ...]

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