Teachers Today Can't Take To

Not Just Any Talk Is Conversation; Not Any Talk Raises Consciousness. Good Conversation Has An Edge: It Opens Your Eyes To Something, Quickens Your Ears. And Good Conversation Reverberates: It Keeps On Talking In Your Mind Later In The Day; The Next Day, You Find Yourself Still Conversing With What Was Said. That Reverberation Afterward Is The Very Raising Of Consciousness; Your Mind's Been Moved. You Are At Another Level With Your Reflections.

In The Cosmology Behind Psychology, There Is No Reason For Anyone To Be Here Or To Do Anything... I'am An Accident - A Result - And Therefore A Victim... If I'm Only A Result Of Past Causes, Then I'm A Victim Of Those Past Causes.... Or, If You Look At It From The Sociological Perspective, I'm The Result Of Upbringing, Class, Race, Gender, Social Prejudices, And Economics. So I'm A Victim Again. A Result .

Art, For Example, Becomes "art Therapy." When Patients Make Music, It Becomes "music Therapy." When The Arts Are Used For "therapy" In This Way, They Are Degraded To A Secondary Position.

How Can We Know Ourselves By Ourselves? . . . Soul Needs Intimate Connection, Not Only To Individuate, But Simply To Live. For This We Need Relationships Of The Profoundest Kind Through Which We Can Realize Ourselves, Where Self-revelation Is Possible, Where Interest In And Love For Soul Is Paramount.

Of Course, A Culture As Manically And Massively Materialistic As Ours Creates Materialistic Behavior In Its People, Especially In Those People Who've Been Subjected To Nothing But The Destruction Of Imagination That This Culture Calls Education, The Destruction Of Autonomy It Calls Work, And The Destruction Of Activity It Calls Entertainment.