“As a [person] of science you’re bound to accept the working hypothesis that explains the facts most plausibly. Well, what are the facts? the first is a fact of experience and observation–namely that nobody wants to suffer, wants to be degraded, wants to be maimed or killed. The second is a fact of history–the fact that, at a certain epoch, the overwhelming majority of human beings accepted beliefs and adopted courses of action that could not possibly result in anything but universal suffering general degradation and wholesale destruction the only plausible explanation is that they were inspired or possessed by an alien consciousness, a consciousness that willed their undoing and willed it more strongly then they were able to will their own happiness and survival.”
“Feeling, willing, thinking – these are the three modes of ordinary human activity. To be complete, life must be lived simultaneously on all three planes. To concentrate on only one mode at the expense of the rest, or on two at the expense of the third, is to court immediate or postponed disaster.”
“In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.”
“The erosion is destroying the land, erosion must be checked at all costs…
Even in the old days when manpower and machinery were plentiful, people had failed to do what was necessary to preserve the fertility of the soil.
“It wasn’t because they couldn’t, it was because they didn’t want to.”
Between World War II and World War III they had all the time and all the equipment they needed. But they preferred to amuse themselves with power politics, and what were the consequences?”
“People always get what they ask for; the only trouble is that they never know, until they get it, what it actually is that they have asked for.”
