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Rationalization Sequence:
"By controlling direction it becomes possible, scientifically, to increase the probability that specific events will ‘happen.’
“Preparation of the material herein set forth dates from the very beginning of my experience. Up to a point in that experience I lived by the common code of loyalty and good fellowship with all of its convincing and romantic ‘tradition.’ Then, through my own particular quota of important slaps in the face, it became apparent that in ‘tradition’ lies fallacy, and that to be guided in conduct and thought by blind adherence to tenets of tradition is, as said in slang, bravely to ‘stick the neck out.’ I realized that experience is the vital factor, and that, since one can think and feel consciously only in terms of experience, one can be hurt only in terms of experience. When one is hurt, then somewhere in the linkage of his experience can be discovered the parting of the strands that led to the hurt. Therefore it follows that strict adherence to rationalization, within the limits of self-experience, will provide corrections to performance obviating not only for one’s self, but for others, the pitfalls that occasion self-hurt. By cultivating the ability to rationalize in the absolute, one acquires the power of so ordering experience that truths are”
