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We Are The Heroes
“After a serious reading of Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents, it seems as if this same vision of humans as the more or less helpless playthings of unconscious drives, instincts, and compulsions was presented by modern depth psychology — making it yet another partner, along with cosmology and genetics/sociobiology, in the general reduction of the ‘human’ to soulless insignificance and miniscule irrelevance.” — Paul De Fatta
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“I have come to understand viscerally that what the human race is undergoing is far more even that a radical and painful transformation; it is nothing less than a species mutation, nothing less than an agonizing and terrifying transition from one kind of species into another that will bear as much resemblance to our current chaotic and desolate state as Mozart does to a chimpanzee.
Humanity, as Aurobindo famously said is an unfinished venture and the adventure the virus has plunged us into will either destroy us or transfigure us in ways that none of us can truly imagine. This has led me to plunge into the mystical tradition’s understanding of what I call the Engoldenment Process.
At the heart of all of the mystical systems I have discovered is the greatest secret of all; that humanity is destined to become an Embodied Divine Humanity and that as my greatest teacher Bede Griffiths said, “The second coming…
