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Concerning the overpopulation problem, remember that more than physical mechanisms are involved. The problem will be solved by mankind indeed; but mankind is composed of reincarnational entities. It is quite within the probabilities that the statistics will reverse themselves and that for no reason that scientists can discover, children are born stillborn, as in a mass epidemic, and that entities simply refuse to inhabit the bodies made for them. The bodies then remaining empty to decay unused. (What a grim situation, I thought.)

When you think in terms of mankind solving its own problems, remember that reincarnation is involved, and not a group of persons in existence for only a particular time. When the personality is thoroughly ready to leave the body, nothing, including transplants, will keep it within the body. And if personalities refuse to inhabit a new body, then no science will be able to give life to the newly formed but uninhabited body.

Because of some of mankind’s curious characteristics, often it does not change unless his life depends upon it, unless survival is threatened. He will be forced to recognize, use and develop his paranormal abilities simply to survive, and in so doing will release them finally for his own benefit and the benefit of his fellows.

Initially fear will be the impetus. He will want to know what is going on in his neighbor’s head so badly that he will realize he already knows. When the transformation is completed mankind will be operating at an entirely different level than you now know.

[...] Due to mankind’s present general insistence upon recognizing no other fields of actuality but his own, the advance of knowledge is curtailed. [...]

[...] By following such a course mankind severely limits the amount of data that reaches his own perception. [...]

The pieces to the puzzle are at mankind’s fingertips, but he has put together an awkward, ill-fitting miniature model universe of a puzzle with which he is afraid to part. [...]

[...] For his refusal to pursue the examination of such forces, mankind suffers greatly the results of his own ignorance.

What I have been telling you this evening, and my discussions in all our sessions, all my comments, have been concerned with basic and simple facts, not alien to mankind’s nature, but more intimate to him than touch. The very fact that over one hundred and thirty sessions have been devoted to such ABC’s is, in itself, adequate proof of how mankind has indeed divorced itself from the nature of its own spirit.

[...] Mankind names and identifies even what he cannot see, and he divides and he separates. [...]

[...] Such a remark is also based upon your definition of spirituality, which is at best limited in your contemporary society, and whose limited definition is indeed the result of the duality which has besieged mankind now for centuries.

[...] Mankind feels its own mortality even more than the beasts do.

(1. How idea structures work in animals as opposed to mankind.

Because of the great flexibility of your natures, however, mankind needs a framework in which the ramifications of what I have referred to as normal healthy guilt can be considered.

[...] (See the 619th session in Chapter Four, as well as the first session in this chapter.) You accepted those ideas for a reason, individually and en masse, for mankind at any given “time” has a strong idea of the particular sort of world experience it will create.

[...] In your own case mankind is forming his reality through the use of these gifts. [...] Within that framework, individually and as a whole, mankind may seem to make errors, to bring ill health, death or desolation upon himself, but he is still using those abilities to create a world.

[...] Eddie seeing me might think understandably: how can she offer any hope for mankind, etc., when she cant even walk across the room? [...]

[...] For some reason mankind as a species on your plane has become much more attached to its camouflage patterns than most other kinds of consciousness. [...]

[...] It is not some isolated occurrence that happens once in a lifetime, and yet as a rule mankind has ignored this completely. [...]

There is no reason why mankind cannot be aware of this transformation, if once he admits into existence the whole self which makes this possible. [...]

[...] Mankind simply refuses to admit the breather and the dreamer.

[...] (Long pause.) Historically speaking, mankind chose a certain line of development. [...]

[...] I used the opportunity, then, to explain the great freedom available to Robert Butts’s mother after death — but also to explain those elements of her reality present during life that had been closed to him consciously because of mankind’s concepts about the nature of the psyche. [...]

[...] The reasons have to do with the particular way in which mankind has chosen to evolve and use his abilities; and I will have more to say regarding this point, but it does not belong in this chapter.

Now there are deep correlations between these symbols and the struggle in which mankind is involved. [...]

The world as you know it is mankind’s creation, and his abilities and limitations are all in evidence there. Within the dream state all mankind knows the outcome of any given dilemma. [...]

[...] In some other realities mankind has taken different roads.

There is no probable solution, you see, to mankind’s difficulties, that is not being tried out in some probable system. [...]

The Trinity concept in your terms was a masculine one, projecting to the one God concept the duality which all mankind feels, but because the theory originated with the male the duality is expressed in terms of the male viewpoint.

A personality in the primary gestalt is indeed focused upon your present plane of reality, but to suppose that the whole primary gestalt is so focused represents mankind’s ego playing with one of its most preposterous proposals.

I cannot stress too strongly the fact that mankind in general is aware of very little outside of physical reality.

[...] The intuitions come close to mankind’s source, and it is through the intuitions that information pertaining to the dream reality will come.

[...] As far as hard facts are concerned, there is no God as mankind has envisioned him, and yet God once existed as mankind now envisions him.

[...] Mankind has been engrossed in dreams of a god who is like himself, except that he was considered to be superior and possessed of the highest qualities that man admires in himself.

If you speak for yourself only, or for mankind only, there is a short circuit. Yourself as mankind—this is the answer (pointing to me)—not to the original question but to the identification in art.

[...] I felt that mankind seemed to have deliberately or perversely chosen to ignore it, for probably innumerable reasons historically. [...]

[...] (Pause.) That concept holds that any illness will worsen, any war will lead to destruction, that any and all known dangers will be encountered, and basically that the end result of mankind’s existence is extinction. [...]

[...] They have always represented, again, portions of mankind’s own psychological reality that to some extent he had not assimilated—but in a schizophrenic kind of expression, projected instead outward from himself. [...]

[...] In many such instances there will also be at least a short spurt of intense but scrambled, perhaps garbled, creative activity, in which the individual tries to recognize these various elements, as mankind himself has attempted many times in the creative, sometimes garbled creation of his own religions (with soft irony).

[...] It does not belong to mankind alone, however. [...]

[...] Using this analogy the mountains and oceans, the valleys and rivers and all natural phenomena spring from the earth’s soul, as all events and all manufactured objects appear from the inner mind or soul of mankind.

(Pause at 10:10.) At the same time, there is much discussion about the good of mankind, ideal principles, goodness, charity and faith—but these are seen as possible only within the group, for the exterior world, you are told, is full of evil and corruption. [...]

[...] They stress love of mankind, while at the same time cutting down on strong personal affiliations of a loving nature, so that love itself cannot seek its expression in concrete terms. [...]

[...] It would hardly be a coincidence, I added, that the mass events at Jonestown and Three Mile Island took place within less than six months of each other, and that they represented the two poles, or extremes, of mankind’s present main belief systems: religion and science.