The Ideas Are Secondary To The Primary

Over-intellectualizing Can Justify Practically Anything. Reason Has Reasons That Can Create Holocausts. In The 20th Century, We Have Certainly Seen How Much Killing And Disaster Has Been Championed With Superb Intellectual Reasons.

The Soul Is The Lure Of Our Becoming.

We Have All Been Brought Up With An Ethical System Of 2,000 Years Ago, An Industrial-managerial System Of 200-300 Years Ago, A Statecraft System Of 200 Years Ago, And So On. None Of This Is Working Very Well For The Requirements Of A Time As Complex And Variegated As Our Own. So We Stand Shuttering At The Threshold, With No Clear Map.

What Happens Is That You Discover You're Carrying So Much Weight That 90 Percent Of What You Thought Yesterday You Are Thinking About Today And Will Think About Again Tomorrow. Your Mind Doesn't Change Because You Are Carrying Too Large A Load. So The Mind Is Caught. It's Seized By Its Own Structures. It Can't Consider Different Ways Of Thinking Or Doing Or Being Or Relating. It's All You Can Do With Your Psychic Energy To Keep Pulling Yourself Along With This Huge Bag That You Are Dragging Behind You.

We Tend To Think Of The Faustian Man, The One Who Fabricates, Manipulates, Seduces And Ends Up Destroying. But The New Image Will Be Man The Creator, The Artist, The Player.