Now The Stream Of Our Common Consciousness

Who Really Can Face The Future? All You Can Do Is Project From The Past, Even When The Past Shows That Such Projections Are Often Wrong. And Who Really Can Forget The Past? What Else Is There To Know?

The World Comes To Us In An Endless Stream Of Puzzle Pieces That We Would Like To Think All Fit Together Somehow, But That In Fact Never Do.

People Say Mental Hospitals Are For The Patients, In Fact They Are To Protect Society From Them. They Are Justified In Doing That. Society Has To Do What Is Best For Itself.

This Inner Peace Of Mind Occurs On Three Levels Of Understanding. Physical Quietness Seems The Easiest To Achieve, Although There Are Levels And Levels Of This Too, As Attested By The Ability Of Hindu Mystics To Live Buried Alive For Many Days. Mental Quietness, In Which One Has No Wandering Thoughts At All, Seems More Difficult, But Can Be Achieved. But Value Quietness, In Which One Has No Wandering Desires At All But Simply Performs The Acts Of His Life Without Desire, That Seems The Hardest.

Mental Patterns Do Not Originate Out Of Inorganic Nature. They Originate Out Of Society, Which Originates Out Of Inorganic Nature. And, As Anthropologists Know So Well, What A Mind Thinks Is As Dominated By Biological Patterns As Social Patterns Are Dominated By Biological Patterns And As Biological Patterns Are Dominated By Inorganic Patterns. There Is No Direct Scientific Connection Between Mind And Matter. As The Atomic Scientist, Niels Bohr, Said, "we Are Suspended In Language." Our Intellectual Description Of Nature Is Always Culturally Derived.