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Up to the present man's history
has been, characterized by a continuous,
and accelerating, expansion:
in numbers, wealth, territory,
knowledge, and power. Every expansion
of man's material powers
has necessarily engendered a corresponding
broadening of his consciousness,
usually after a generational
lag, so as to restore balance
to the mind-body bias of the
universe (which is the dimension of
space-time we call life). Man, having
extended his objective control to
the atom, the moon, and the DNA
molecule, has reacted on the
subjective side by manipulating the
very structure of his consciousness
through the use of mind-expanding
drugs.

This process of expansion has
now reached its natural limit: to
pursue it further will lead to a
cancerous proliferation of untamed
energy which will destroy man, of
meaningless data which will
smother wisdom. The problem now
is the organization, the patterning
into a coherent whole, of the
infinite powers we have acquired:
the control of nuclear energy,
limitation of population, restoration
of a poisoned environment,
and the conscious direction of the
genetic evolution. The same is true
of the human mind: At its present
level of consciousness-intensity it
can barely manage its function as a
center-of-gravity between the subjective
and objective universes. Any
great expansion of either will upset
the balance and send consciousness
teetering off into madness. Our
generation realizes the truth of this
as far as the external world is
concerned: that a continued inflation
of wealth, power, or brute
number will permanently alienate
us from our inner nature. Many of
us fail to see that the reverse is also
true. Any further expansion of our
consciousness, via drugs or the rote
memorization of data, will weaken
its focusing power at the "doors of
perception," that gateway between
two infinite potentials where humanity
creates reality, and cause it
to sink into a mindless ocean of
neural impulses.

What, then, should be done?
Instead of drug-dispersing our
mind-powers into a warm oceanic
euphoria populated by strange
flashes we should concentrate,
focus them into a laser beam that
will energize our consciousness-structure
at a higher quant of
intensity. Our minds cannot expand
indefinitely; at a certain threshold
in our internal space-time continuum
their powers must be united in
a single impulse which will transcend
that threshold and achieve the
state of consciousness known as
godhood. To cope with, and be
worthy of, our godlike powers in
the material universe. This is the
ultimate destiny of the human race.
It can only be accomplished by
uniting man's creative but unborn
desire with an existing but uninspired
universe through the most
challenging disciplines the cultivation
of psychokinetic and telepathic
powers, meditation, art all
products of, and tributary to, an
ecstatic Love.