Control Of Consciousness Determines The Quality Of

For A Person To Become Deeply Involved In Any Activity It Is Essential That He Knows Precisely What Tasks He Must Accomplish, Moment By Moment.

Why Is It That, Despite Having Achieved Previously Undreamed-of Miracles Of Progress, We Seem More Helpless In Facing Life Than Our Less Privileged Ancestors Were? The Answer Seems Clear: While Humankind Collectively Has Increased Its Material Powers A Thousandfold, It Has Not Advanced Very Far In Terms Of Improving The Content Of Experience.

Through Learning We Grow, Becoming More Than We Were Before, And In That Sense Learning Is Unselfish, Because It Results In The Transformation Of What We Were Before, A Setting Aside Of The Old Self In Favor Of A More Complex One.

One Must Develop Skills That Stretch Capacities, That Make One More Than What One Is.

People Without An Internalized Symbolic System Can All Too Easily Become Captives Of The Media.