Very Often Your Attitude About

We're Just Animals, Creatures Smart Enough And Unlucky Enough To Have Figured Out We're Alive, And We're Going To Die Without Ever Knowing Any Purpose. We Can Pretend All We Want And We Can Wish All We Want, But That Basic Existential Fact Remains—we Can't Know.

We're Finally Becoming Aware Of A Process That Has Been Unconscious Since Human Experience Began. From The Start, Humans Have Perceived A Birth Vision, And Then After Birth Have Gone Unconscious, Aware Of Only The Vaguest Of Intuitions. At First In The Early Day Of Human History, The Distance Between What We Intended And What We Actually Accomplished Was Very Great, And Then, Over Time, The Distance Has Closed. Now We're The Verge Of Remembering Everything.

When We Cultivate Mystical Awareness Or Transcendent Identity--which Is A Natural Outgrowth Of Meditation And Other Practices--what Happens Is That We Begin To Take A Witness Position On Our Own Lives, And That Includes Our Minds. We Break The Illusion That We Think Our Own Thoughts, Which Is Not Always The Case. Some Ideas Just Arrive In Our Heads.

I'm Asked That A Lot: 'james, Is There Really A Continuing Spiritual Renaissance Occurring On This Planet? Look At All The Conflict, Look At The Wars.' And I Believe, Yes, We're Still Moving Toward A Deeper Spirituality. It's Personal. It's Grassroots. It's Everybody Trying To Get Their Own Connection Made, And From There It Grows Out.

It Is Important To Communicate To Children About What We Are Going Through. We Often Speak In Half Truths. We Don't Frame The Truth Or Explain Our Experience In Terms They Can Understand. We Need To Take Time To Do This. What Has To Happen Is That More People Have To Get Involved With More Children. Focus Energy On The Child. Children Are Raising Themselves These Days In All Sorts Of Strange Ways.