We Are Effectively Destroying Ourselves

If I Do Not Know That I Do Not Know, I Think I Know. If I Do Not Know That I Know, I Think I Do Not Know.

I, For Instance, Regard Any Particular Man As Finite, As One Who Has Had A Beginning And Who Will Have An End. He Has Been Born, And He Is Going To Die. In The Meantime, He Has A Body That Roots Him To This Time And This Place.

Each Time A New Baby Is Born There Is A Possibility Of Reprieve. Each Child Is A New Being, A Potential Prophet, A New Spiritual Prince, A New Spark Of Light Precipitated Into The Outer Darkness.

Our Capacity To Think, Except In The Service Of What We Are Dangerously Deluded In Supposing Is Our Self-interest And In Conformity With Common Sense, Is Pitifully Limited: Our Capacity Even To See, Hear, Touch, Taste And Smell Is So Shrouded In Veils Of Mystification That An Intensive Discipline Of Unlearning Is Necessary For Anyone Before One Can Begin To Experience The World Afresh, With Innocence, Truth And Love.

Even Facts Become Fictions Without Adequate Ways Of Seeing "the Facts". We Do Not Need Theories So Much As The Experience That Is The Source Of The Theory. We Are Not Satisfied With Faith, In The Sense Of An Implausible Hypothesis Irrationally Held: We Demand To Experience The "evidence".