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PROJECT MIND
The Conscious Conquest of Man & Matter
Through Accelerated
Thought
by David S. Devor (T. Kun)
Summary of CHAPTER 2:
Lessons In Life
. . . the experience I was going through, the disillusionment and the pain,
was all foreign to my mother. The bland sympathy she offered was totally
incommensurate with the immensity of my distress. She was oblivious to
the depth of my terror. [page 8]
. . . absolutely anything can be accomplished if one truly sets one's
mind to it. [page 9]
. . . I always felt modesty was an over-touted virtue. I was overreaching
and presumptuous with my elders: in short, a conceited smart aleck. [page
10]
. . . my father . . . with refreshing insight, . . . would put things
in perspective by reminding me that, "A person has a right to be conceited,
but only until he is successful." He confided to me that he himself was
once considered "too big for his breeches" before his detractors were silenced
by his accomplishments. [page 10]
. . . A sudden insight of unquestionable certainty told me that there
was no upper limit whatsoever to the joy and happiness that a human being
can experience. This certainty has been with me ever since. [page 11]
. . . I wished to understand how society could be organized to satisfy
human needs and drives without all the deprivation, discontent, strife
and suffering that everyone seemed to accept as a natural and inevitable
state. [page 12]
. . . man's almost totally obfuscated yet most characterizing drive--his
most distinguishing feature--is not selfishness as is generally believed,
but altruism--the desire to give to others. . . . deep down, all man truly
wanted was to love his neighbor! [page 12]
. . . I had no choice but to put aside my ideas for the day when I'd
have the strength and maturity to bear them alone. [page 14]
. . . I knew that time and matter (including space and distance) could
be overcome. [page 16]
. . . I found that there was a whole body of knowledge going back to
ancient times and a whole movement concerned with overcoming the limits
of coarse materiality in man in the interest of elevating his spirit, often
in the service of a higher principle or deity. [page 17]
Usually, the members of such schools of spirituality, mysticism or esoterism,
at least the better ones, aspire to immortality through the intense, precise
and systematic exercise of their capacity of attention. This inner effort
can ostensibly be orchestrated in apprentices only by a "master" or by
someone who has acquired some proficiency in the intricacies of balancing
the many different qualities of matter and energy that live and circulate
within us. Out of certain fine substances believed to derive from such
efforts--efforts that often have outward manifestations that appear quite
banal--new bodies are thought to develop. [page 17]
The solution to this predicament, I believe, lies in the reconciliation
and integration of science and religion (in the spiritual sense of seeking
unity in man). [page 18]
. . . For each person you awaken two fall back asleep, as the experience
of awakening becomes cunningly integrated into dreams of awakening. [page
19]
. . . The forms of restriction that matter imposes upon humanity fall
generally under the headings of distraction, dissipation (entropy) and
illusion. The result? Dulled awareness, alienation, anomie, corruption,
confusion, depletion and death. [page 19]
. . . It is an inescapable fact which global ecological conditions are
now forcing upon our attention in a most menacing way. [page 20]
Never be deterred in the goals you seek by the extent of the means that
are required, regardless of how great. If you are true to your aim, the
necessary means will appear at the appropriate moment. [page 20]
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