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As Long As We Prioritize Material Truths Over Spiritual Truths We Will Live In Tyranny Because We Are Living An Illusion

All We Can Do Is Adapt The Way We View This Condition, Not As A Crime Or A Romantic Affectation But As A Disease That Will Kill. We Need To Review The Way Society Treats Addicts, Not As Criminals But As Sick People In Need Of Care.

One Of The Great Sadnesses Of Modern Life, Because Of Our Disenfranchisement And Disillusionment With Religion, Is That We Don't Have Access To These Ideas. Yoga And Meditation, For Me, Is A Way Of, In This Secular World, Accessing Very Very Beautiful Principles That Would Perhaps Make Us Happier, At A Time When People Feel Disillusioned With The Economy, Concerned About The Ecology, Worried With Politicians, And Don't Trust What They're Being Told On Television.

My Mate Karl Once Told Me He’d Been Looking After This Five-year-old Boy Who – Not Knowing Enough To Have An Ironic Inflection To His Words – Said, ‘i Want Something.’ He Didn’t Know What It Was. Not ‘i Want Sweets’, Or ‘a Can Of Coke’, Or ‘to Watch The Tweenies’, Or Whatever It Is They’re Into Now (i Like Bagpuss), But ‘i Want Something.’ All Of Us, I Think, Have That Feeling. And What Heroin Does When You First Start Taking It Is Tell You What That Something Is.

I Don't Get My Authority From This Preexisting Paradigm Which Is Quite Narrow And Only Serves A Few People. I Look Elsewhere For Alternatives That Might Be Of Service To Humanity.