The night sounds were at one particular and at the same time a deep hum on the warm breeze, and the Moon was high, sometimes penetrating a break in the garden that suddenly revealed its beautiful glistening light more subtly. I looked at the scattered stars—so cunningly bright in the Cresleigh Rocklin Trails night. And I loved them, as usual. What a comfort was it to be discovered in the endless Universe, a marvelous being on a beautiful blue, green and white diamond of revolving divinity, whose forefathers had read patterns and meanings into these countless unknowable points of cold white fire, which gave us faith with their entrancing, dramatic display of twinklingly glimmers of light. Thankful they shine over us to guide lost soul back to Heaven as they illuminate the pastureland, the distant clusters of over, and cast glory on the warmly lighted houses. My soul is with the garden tonight. The most important fact for understanding both the character and the secret religion of contemporary human society is the change in the social character form the earlier era of capitalism to the twenty-first century. The authoritarian-obsessive-hoarding character that has begun to develop in the sixteenth century, and continued to be the dominant character structure at least in the middle classes until the end of the nineteenth century, was slowly blended or replaced by the marketing character. #RandolphHarris 1 of 15

I have called this phenomenon the marketing character because it is based on experiencing oneself as a commodity, and one’s value not as use value but as exchange value. The living being becomes a commodity on the personality market. The principle of evaluation is the same on both the personality and the commodity markets: on the one, personalities are offered for sale; on the other, commodities. Value in both cases is their exchange value, for which use value is a necessary but not a sufficient condition. Although the proportion of skill and human qualities on the one hand and personality on the other hand as prerequisites for success varies, the personality factor always plays a decisive role. Success depends largely on how well personal sell themselves on the market, how well they get their personalities across, how nice a package they are; whether they are cheerful, sound, aggressive, reliable, ambitious; furthermore, what their family backgrounds are, what clubs they belong to, and whether they know the right people. The type of personality required deepens to some degree on the special field in which a person may choose to work. A stockbroker, a salesperson, a secretary, a railroad executive, a college professor, or a hotel manager must each offer a different kind of personality that, regardless of their differences, must fulfill one condition: to be in demand. #RandolphHarris 2 of 15

What shapes one’s attitude toward oneself is the fact that skill and equipment for performing a given task are not sufficient; one must be able to put one’s personality across in competition wit many others in order to have success. If it were enough for the purpose of making a living to rely on what one knows and what one can do, one’s self-esteem would be in proportion to one’s capacities, that is, to one’s use value. However, since success depends largely on how one sells one’s personality, one experiences oneself as a commodity or, rather, simultaneously as the seller and the commodity to be sold. A person is not concerned with his or her life and happiness, but with becoming salable. The aim of the marketing character is complete adaptation, so as to be desirable under all conditions of the personality market. The marketing character personalities do not even have egos (as people in the nineteenth century did) to hold onto, that belong to them, that do not change. Foe they constantly change their egos, according to the principle: “I am as you desire me.” #RandolphHarris 3 of 15

Those with the marketing character structure are with goals,  moving, doing things with the greatest efficiency: if asked why they must move so fast, why things have to be done with the greatest efficiency, they have genuine answers, such as, “To keep you from unnecessarily having to wait behind fifty people when your order is always ready,” or “Because this is what the manufacture recommends for safety reason and optimal performance,” or “In order to promote from within and employee retention,” or “This is the way to maximize profits, keep shareholders and customers happy, and it helps the company grow,” and that is much better than rationalizations. Many people are also getting back to having more interest (at least subconsciously) in philosophical or religious questions, such as why one lives, and why one is going in this direction rather than in another. They have their developing consciousness that is opening up to the infinite idea of God and eternal life, and are developing a self, a core, and a sense of identity. However, if people are having an identity crisis it is produced by the fact that its members have become selfless instruments, whose identity rests upon their participation in the corporations (or other giant bureaucracies), as a primitive individual’s identity rests upon memberships in the clan. #RandolphHarris 4 of 15

We have to make sure our character either loves or hates. These old-fashion emotions have to fit into a character structure that functions almost entirely on the cerebral level and accepts feeling, whether good or evil ones, because they are what assist us with the marketing characters’ main purpose: selling and exchanging—or to put it even more precisely, functioning according to the logic of the Universal Soul, of which we are a part, and we must of course be concerned with how well we function, as indicated by our advancement in the bureaucracy. Since we are in marketing and people can sense and feel us, we must have deep attachment to ourselves and to others, we have to care, in a deep sense of the word, because we want our reactions to feel real and for people to like us. This may also explain why we are concerned with dangers in our communities and ecological catastrophes, even when the data that point to these dangers is being hidden. That we are concerned with our community, people in it, and the environment might still be explained by the idea that we have great courage and unselfishness; and that we have a concern for our children and grandchildren is included in such an explanation. The expressiveness of concern on all these levels is the result of the increase of emotional bonds, even to people were merely associate with as well as those nearest to us. The fact is, we are close to marketing characters; and we are close to ourselves. #RandolphHarris 5 of 15

Many contemporary human beings love to buy and consume, and they are so attached to what they buy, and this significant display of the marketing character phenomenon is so appear with how architects design homes, then builders furnish them so you can see the many lovely moments you can have in a house with similar items. The marketing character is seen in how people groom and educate their children to make them as attractive and respectful as possible in faith that they will lead a successful life. And look at the prestigious cars people buy, not only for the comfort and safety they give, but for the style and brand recognition. For many people, they love their car as much as their dogs or other pets. The things we own are utterly indispensable, along with our friends and relations, who are irreplaceable, too, since some deeper bind exists to tall of them. The marketing character goal, proper functioning under all circumstances, makes us respond to the World mainly cerebrally. Reason in the sense of understand is an exclusive quality of Homo sapiens; controlling intelligence as a tool for the achievement of practical purposes is common to animals and humans. Controlling intelligence without reason is dangerous, however, because it makes people move in directions that may be self-destructive from the standpoint of reason. In fact, the more brilliant the uncontrolled intelligence is, the more dangerous it is. #RandolphHarris 6 of 15

It was no less a scientist than Charles Darwin who demonstrated the consequences and the human tragedy of a purely scientific, alienated intellect. He writes in his autobiography that until his thirtieth year he had intensely enjoyed music and poetry and pictures, but that for many years afterward he lost all his taste for these interests: “My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of fact…The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.” The process Darwin describes here has continued since his time at a rapid pace; the separation from reason and hearts is not something we want. We have to put God first, have love in our hearts, and we can still have nice material possessions. However, it is a loss of special interest that this deterioration of reason had taken place in the majority of the leading investigators in the most exacting and revolutionary sciences (in theoretical physics, for example) and that they were people who were deeply concerned with philosophical and spiritual questions. I refer to such individuals as Martin Luther, Francis Bacon, Harriet Tubman, Buddha, Empress Dowager Cixi, Sarah and William Winchester, William Randolph Hearst, Albert Einstein, N. Bohr, L. Szillard, W. Heisenberg, E. Schrodinger. #RandolphHarris 7 of 15

The supremacy of cerebral, controlling thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life. Since it is not cultivated or needed, but rather an impediment to optimal functioning, emotional life has remained stunted and never matured beyond the level of a child’s. As a result the marketing characters are peculiarly naïve as far as emotional problem are concerned. They may be attracted by emotional people, but because of their own naivete, they often cannot judge whether such people are genuine or fakers. This may explain why so many pseudo human beings can be successful in the spiritual and religious fields; it may also explain why politicians who portray strong emotions have a strong appeal for the marketing character—and why the marketing character cannot discriminate between a genuinely religious person and the public relations product who fakes strong religious emotions. The term marketing character is by no means the only one to describe this type. It can also be described by the term alienated character; persons of this character are alienated from their work, from themselves, from other human beings, and from nature. In psychiatric terms the marketing person who is detached and not genuine could be called a schizoid character; but the term may be slightly misleading, because a schizoid person living with other schizoid persons and performing well and being successful, because of one’s schizoid character entirely lacks the feeling of uneasiness that the schizoid character has in a more normal environment. #RandolphHarris 8 of 15

In a study of two hundred and fifty executives, managers, and engineers in two of the best-run large companies in the United States, it was discovered that many of these people are found to possess features of the cybernetic person, particularly the predominance of the cerebral along with the underdevelopment of the emotional sphere. Considering that the executives and managers are and will be among the leaders of American society, the social importance of this study is substantial. It was found that 0 percent of these people had a deep scientific interest in understanding, dynamic sense of the work, animated. 22 percent were centered, enlivening, crafts-person- like, but lacks the deeper scientific interest in the nature of things. 58 percent found the work itself stimulates interest, which is not self-sustained. 18 percent were moderate productive, not centered. Interest in work is essentially instrumental, to ensure security, income. 2 percent are passive unproductive, diffused. 0 percent rejecting of work, rejects the real World. Two features are striking: deep interest in understanding (reason) is absent, and for the vast majority either the stimulation of their work is not self-sustaining or the work is essentially a means for ensuring economic security. #RandolphHarris 9 of 15

In complete contrast is the picture of what we call the love scale. 0 percent were loving, affirmative, creatively stimulating. 5 percent were responsible, warm, affectionate, but not deeply loving. 40 percent possessed moderate interest in another person, with more loving possibilities. 41 percent were found to have conventional concern, decent, and are role oriented. 13 percent are passive, unloving, uninterested. And 1 percent were considered to be rejecting of life, hardened heart. No one in the study could be characterized as deeply loving, although 5 percent show up as being warm and affectionate. All the rest are listed as having moderate interest, or conventional concern, or as unloving, or outright rejecting of life—indeed a striking picture of emotional underdevelopment in contrast to the prominence of cerebralism. The cybernetic religion of the marketing character corresponds to that total character structure. Hidden behind the façade of agnosticism or Christianity is a thoroughly pagan religion, although people are not conscious of it as such. This pagan religion is difficult to describe, since it can only be inferred from what people do (and do not do) and not from their conscious thoughts about religion or strict doctrines of religious organization. Most striking, at first glance, is that mortals have made themselves into a god because one has acquired the technical capacity for a second creation of the World, replacing the first creation by the God of traditional religion. #RandolphHarris 10 of 15

We can also formulate: We have made the machine into a god and have become godlike by serving the machine. It matters little the formulation we choose; what matters is that human beings, in the state of their greatest real impotence, imagine themselves in connection with science and technique to be omnipotent. This aspect of cybernetic religion corresponds to a more hopeful period of development. However, the more we are caught in our isolation, in our lack of emotional response to the World, and at the same time the more unavoidable a catastrophic end seems to be, the more malignant becomes the new religion. We cease to be the masters of technique and become instead its slaves—and technique, once a vital element of creation, shows its other face as the goddess of destruction (like the Indian goddess Kali), to which men and women are willing to sacrifice themselves and their children. While consciously still hanging onto the hope for a better future, cybernetic humanity represses the fact that they have become worshippers of the goddess of destruction. “And thus we see the great call of diligence of people to labor in the vineyards of the Lord; and thus we see the great reason of sorrow, and also rejoicing—sorrow because of death and destruction among mortals, and joy because of the light of Christ unto life,” reports Alma 28.14. #RandolphHarris 11 of 15

This thesis has many kinds of proof, but none more compelling than these two: that the great (and even some smaller powers continue to build nuclear weapons of ever-increasing capacity for destruction and do not arrive at the one sane solution—destruction of all nuclear weapons and the atomic energy plants that deliver the material for nuclear weapons—and that virtually nothing is done to end the danger of corruption, economic and ecological catastrophe. In short, nothing serious is being done to plan for the survival of the human race. “And thus we see how great the inequality of mortals is because of sin and transgression, and the power of the devil, which comes by cunning plans which he hath devised to ensnare the hearts of mortals,” Alma 28.13. Attitudes of superiority provide another way of expressing anger indirectly. It is quite hostile after all to say to another person, in effect, “I am so more better than you and any opinions or feelings you may have count for nothing, my human!” And when such superiority feelings are used cleverly, such as portraying oneself as condescendingly tolerant of another, they become a powerful and cutting weapon. Many mortals who feel themselves to be trained in logic and the scientific method use this distancing device with great effectiveness. Such a mortal will convey the feeling to one’s wife that there is something suspect about any emotional reaction she may have. “After all,” he says, “you have to approach life rationally. You are letting your emotions influence your judgment.” #RandolphHarris 12 of 15

And, of course, the wife may turn the tables and adapt her own superior attitude and declare, “Well, I was just reading in a book the other day that it is important and right to show our emotions. So there!” (Well, of course she is right, but she is using it in an assertive way, which could lead to a fight!) Sometimes we express hostility indirectly by misplacing our anger. We may nag and express irritation about many little things, while avoiding the genuine anger which we are afraid to reveal. For example, a wife might “pitch a fit” continually about her husband not fixing the things on the “honey do list,” when she is really afraid that if he lets it go too long, it might reflect poorly on him as an employee and create a lack of advancement in the company organization when his boss comes over for dinner or finds out about it otherwise, as it is a small community. Sometimes we misplace our hostility to other people. Often this involves a pecking order in which we misplace anger from a person who is a considerable threat to us, like a spouse or a boss, and place it on someone less threatening, like our children, who in turn may pull the display deviant behavior as a result. We sometimes express anger indirectly by projecting it onto another person and seeing that individual as being hostile toward us. This process, too, serves the purpose of maintaining emotional distance, for if we can purpose of maintaining emotional distance, for is we can preserve the idea that another person is unfriendly and hostile there is little danger of our becoming close. #RandolphHarris 13 of 15

In fact, the person may become increasingly unfriendly and hostile as one reacts to our reactions to one’s imagined hostility. A discussion of the costs we pay in damage to ourselves and damage in our relations with others when we suppress anger cannot be concluded without a discussion of the violent explosions that sometimes occur. And the fact that such explosions do occur is often frightening to those who sense something of this potential violence within themselves. It is not unusual to feel as one man who stated, “I have so much anger bottled up in me that I am afraid if I ever let myself express it, it would be the point of no return.” Often this fear has little or no basis in fact. It serves as an excuse for imposing control on ourselves. We are really afraid of an open relationship in which we could express our anger freely. The fear that we will do violence is substituted to give ourselves a more plausible reason for not being genuine. On the other hand, the fear of violence may have some basis of truth. The fallacy of continuing a rigid control of our anger, however, is that this simply increase the inner tension and makes the possibility of violence more real. The frequently used analogy of the steam boiler under pressure is probably the most appropriate one. If hostility is permitted to build up and none of the pressure is allowed to escape, the possibility of an explosion increases. #RandolphHarris 14 of 15

The person who fears violence within oneself may need to consult professional help immediately to assess the reality of his or her fear and help him or her to find safe ways to dissipate the inner pressure. Nick was such a person. He was in construction work; and when irritating situations arose on the job, he often became frightened with himself. He seethed with so much anger, particularly toward his foreman on these occasions, that he was afraid he might end the life of one of them if he ever got carried away and began to express his feelings. The therapist he sought out helped him talk through a lot of his feelings, including a huge backlog of anger toward his father that he had probably misplaced on the foreman. Nick also discovered that he could talk over some of his irritations with his boss and that when he did this his feeling of wanting to do violence disappeared even when he and his boss did not reach complete agreement. In brief, we are trying to help people become more intelligent, widely informed, concerned wit basic problems, cleaver and imaginative, socially effective and personally dominant, verbally fluent, and possessed of initiative. Instead of being seen as conforming, rigid and stereotyped, uninsightful, commonplace, apathetic, and dull. Whatever you believe to be truth about God, declare to be the Truth about yourself. Know that the power within you is God, and the law of good establishing right action in your life. #RandolphHarris 15 of 15