PROJECT MIND
The Conscious Conquest of Man & Matter
Through Accelerated Thought
by David S. Devor (T. Kun)

Summary of CHAPTER 8:
Breakthrough, Time & Matter

It is the ability to generate scientific and technical breakthroughs that most characterizes the third stage of Accelerated Thought. [page 103]

Dramatically increasing the frequency of discoveries and breakthroughs - the rate at which matter is formed and transformed - will even more dramatically influence human culture, attitudes and outlooks, freeing man's mind from matter-bound convention at an accelerating rate - a rate far too rapid to allow complacency to set in. [page 103]

As his mind opens, man's experience can include more and more of reality as extension in time contracts towards simultaneity. [page 104]

When we live in the eternal present, time disappears and simultaneous, integrated cause and effect - "spiritual time" - takes its place. [page 104]

We will perceive that our well-being depends on understanding and not on ownership, power or status. [page 104]

Matter will become so malleable, so obedient to our will, that constraints of all kinds will progressively disappear and "new man," relieved of the morbid influence of greed and deprivation, will be free to pursue the development of his unique potential. [page 104]

For truly to know something implies the ability to experience and reproduce within ourselves the pattern or quality of existence of which that "something" objectively consists. [page 105]

... He cannot help feeling cravings for the emotions of wonder and elation that accompanied the expansion of self-awareness. [page 106]

... the slowing down and eventual cessation of the growth of self-awareness that results from the inability of consciousness to assimilate any more of the world into itself constitutes a challenge to the subject... [page 106]

Nature and the world are never at rest. They constantly generate new forms that bombard the psyche and impinge upon it, challenging and admonishing man to go on growing, and urging him back into movement. [page 106]

They increasingly show our subject that the consciousness he has attained is as nothing when compared with the knowledge in the world that remains hidden. [page 107]

It is now the pressure of reality closing in on him that poses the challenge. [page 107]

He must again turn his attention outwards and concentrate on those aspects of the material world that are most significant to him, but which have, until now, resisted inclusion within his consciousness. [page 107]

The change of quality in consciousness - subjective to objective - needed to break this deadlock implies that our subject's subjective experiencings, conscious as they are, must take as their underpinning a new, firmer, more substantial, more essential foundation. [page 107]

Most, if not all, major traditions agree that man is a microcosm - a small world - every part of which corresponds in some way to cosmic reality. [page 108]

The discovery of the existence of a dimension beyond distracted, reflective consciousness can easily bring us to religion or to some brand of spiritual discipline under the tutelage of a teacher, guru or mentor. Such a side trip, notwithstanding many benefits, can divert a seeker, even permanently, from his original quest and his confrontation with matter. [page 109]

Under the special conditions envisaged by Project Mind for nurturing Accelerated Thought, the euphoric flights of spiritual and religious revelation and related misapprehensions contributing to the deflection of purpose in the creative process will be contained within a framework designed to keep our subject on track and maintain his perspective. [page 109]

... the process is ripe for a new and final high-energy phase requiring for its maintenance a "heavier" form of cognitive fuel consisting of the "hard" material facts of reality (enigmatic and indigestible to a consciousness of less than scintillating brightness). [page 110]

Even in physics - the most precise and definitive of sciences - the very notion of matter changes continually. ... physics is at present reduced to viewing matter as fluctuating fields of energy, or ripples induced by an "implicate order." Such notions come uncomfortably close, for some physicists, to implying that a deity or consciousness is at the root of matter. [page 111]

Cut off from the inner aesthetic certainties of early childhood, and denied further access to the Biblical "Tree of Knowledge" (i.e., objective truth), we fall prey to our subjective fears and anxieties, unaware that in reality our feelings of vulnerability stem from our own enfeebled consciousness ...[page 111]

And so for wisdom we substitute cleverness; for understanding, opinion; and for intuition, idle hunches. Our dependence on such corrupted means, leads us ever deeper into the spiral of perplexity and degradation. [page 112]

... Caught behind the proverbial "eight-ball" of our subjectivity, we live this grotesque inversion, eating our way to the grave instead of working towards eternity. [page 112]

Worst of all, the almost universal view of benumbed humanity that, ultimately, death is a good and natural thing, confirms our spiritual and intellectual bankruptcy. Our lack of horror is the main horror. [page 112]

Seen in the light of consciousness and stripped of our social neuroses, no group cause - no pretext of any kind - can possibly have more meaning to us than the miracle of life and the cosmic role destiny has dealt us. [page 113]

We succumb willingly to the illusion of safety - of being cared for - that social approval provides. ... A good reputation becomes our most valued asset, more dear to us than our essence, Being, integrity, and often, more than life itself. [page 114]

As we conform, we of necessity surrender pieces of our identity - our individuality - in small acts of downward-transcendent self-sacrifice. ... It is almost as if he were an organizational unit in a beehive or anthill. [page 114]

...to be truly alive we must actively integrate what we encounter into our own thought systems - our own meanings - within the framework of a dynamic process of inner growth that weeds out contradictions and inconsistencies. [page 116]

... It equips us to reveal some special piece of cosmic truth to which the essential uniqueness of other individuals is less favorably attuned. [page 116]

Like the seed that it is, essence must find its just expression, consciously, through the growth of Being. [page 116]

...all that remains to man of objectivity is the occasional glimmer of truth that rarely, accidentally filters up through intuition from the objective knowledge hidden deeply within his essence and hard-wired into the circuitry and structure of his substance. [page 117]

If anything of this spirit survives the brutally alienating ordeal of socialization, we may one day hear the far-off call of objective truth waiting to issue forth from essence. [page 118]

Grounded to some small extent in reality, our subject now approaches the experience of certainty - the firm, authentic, conscious certainty of his existence and unique identity. [page 118]

And love, in the end, is the negation of death. [page 118]

Death and its harbingers - accident, deprivation, pain and disease - are perpetuated by our socially generated failure of courage and default of awareness. [page 118]

... We lack our subject's conscious conviction that "absolutely nothing in the world" can resist the force of intelligence when combined with the will to apply that intelligence without fear or reservation. [page 118]

...his intimate contact with himself - part and parcel of his hard-won personal consciousness - provides enhanced access to his own essential resources of cosmic knowledge. [page 119]

This feeling of certainty ... - will soon also be shown to be the prime mover of Accelerated Thought and a springboard to objective consciousness. [page 119]

... We have it all but just don't know it. [page 119]

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