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17. THE INNER STATE

[T]HE FACILITATOR WHO HAS DONE THE INTERIOR WORK WILL “SET THE FIELD” FOR THE PARTICIPANTS AND HELP THEM LEARN THE WAY INTO THAT DEEPER TERRITORY THROUGH DISCIPLINED PERSONAL PRACTICE. IT IS ONLY THEN THAT PARTICIPANTS WILL BEGIN TO ACT AS A “SINGLE INTELLIGENCE” AND RELEASE THE “PHENOMENAL CAPACITIES” ENFOLDED IN THE GROUP.

Earlier that morning at breakfast, Lee had told me that he had worked closely with Bohm from the early 1980s until Bohm’s death in 1992. Lee wrote the forewords for a number of Bohm’s books, including a book on the nature of thought and the self that was created from the transcription of a seminar Bohm held at Ojai – Thought as a System. (Lee had taught at Ojai with the noted Indian teacher, J. Krishnamurti, ...