It's Very Hard To Know What Wisdom

We Vote For Perot. We Think He's A Great, Marvelous, Honest Man. We Send Money To His Campaign, Even Though He Is One Of The Richest Capitalists In Our Culture. Imagine, Sending Money To Perot! It's Unbelievable, Yet It's Part Of That Worship Of Individuality.

Open Your Heart, Your Gaze, To The Visitations Of Angels, Even If The Gifts They Bring May Not Be Centeredness And Balance But Eccentricity And A Wholly Unfamiliar Sense Of Pleasure Called Joy.

My War - And I Have Yet To Win A Decisive Battle - Is With The Modes Of Thought That And Conditioned Feelings That Prevail In Psychology And Therefore Also In The Way We Think And Feel About Our Being. Of These Conditions None Are More Tyrannical Than The Convictions That Clamp The Mind And Heart Into Positivistic Science (geneticism And Computerism), Economics (bottom-line Capitalism), And Single-minded Faith (fundamentalism).

To Hope For Nothing, To Expect Nothing, To Demand Nothing. This Is Analytical Despair.

As The Popular Trust In Science Fades - And Many Sociologists Say That's Happening Today - People Will Develop A Distrust Of Purely "scientific" Psychology. Researchers In The Universities Haven't Picked Up On This; They're More Interested In Genetics And Computer Models Of Thinking Than Ever. But, In General, There Is A Huge Distrust Of The Scientific Establishment Now.