I Have Been Haunted by Anxiety–Who Will Trust Us with the True Wealth?

It is important to learn to control your Earthly body because you may think you are saved, and on Judgment Day find yourself roasting in Hades with the Morning Star. Society and culture play a significant role in individual human development. The main task of humans in life is to give birth to oneself, to become what one potentially is. The most important product of one’s effort is one’s own personality. Many dreams tend to hide their rue meaning and express it in forms which are not dissimilar to a political writer in a dictatorship, who expresses one’s thought between the lines or speaks about an event in classical Greece while really referring to contemporary event. This, the dream is never an open communication but is to be compared to a coded writing which has o be deciphered in order to be understandable. The coding has to be done in such a way that even the dreamer feels safe when one expresses ideas in one’s dream which do not fit into the thought patterns of the society in which one lives. The censorship has more of a social character then assumed, but at the moment this is of no importance. What matters is that the dream must be decoded. However, this insight in its simple and strict and uncompromising formulation often leads to erroneous results. Not every dream needs to be decoded and the degree of coding differs very much from dream to dream. Whether and to what extent coding is necessary depends on the sanctions which society puts against those who think unthinkable thoughts in their sleep and it also depends on such individual factors as how submissive and frightened a person is, and hence to what degree one feels in need of coding a thought which can be dangerous. #RandolphHarris 1 of 21

When I say dangerous, I do not refer particularly to external sanctions of society against those who have dangerous thoughts. Indeed that happens too, and is not invalidated by the objection that after all our sleep thoughts—that is, our dreams—are secret and nobody knows about them. If it is important to avoid dangerous thoughts, one must not even think them in one’s dreams because they must remain deeply repressed. By dangerous thoughts, I mean thoughts which a person would be punished or might suffer in one’s daily life for having, if they were known. There are such thoughts, as we all know, and people have a good sense of what they had better not say and hence had better not think if they do not want to suffer disadvantages. However, I am speaking here mainly of thoughts which are dangerous not because they say something specific which would be sanctioned, but because they move out of the frame of reference of common sense. They are thoughts which are not shared by anybody else or by more than a very small group and hence they put a person in the position of feeling isolated, alone, out of contact. It is this very experience which contains the nucleus of insanity which occurs when a person has cut off completely any connection with others. However, we must go a little further than this. It is not an accident that simple-minded people, however spiritual, should blend the ideas of God and Heaven and the blue sky. It is a fact, not a fiction, that light and life-giving heat do come down from the sky to the Earth. The analogy of the sky’s role to begetting and of the Earth’s role to bearing is sound as far as it goes. #RandolphHarris 2 of 21

The huge dome of the sky is of all things sensuously perceived the most like infinity. And when God made space and Worlds that move in space, and clothed our World with air, and gave us such eyes and such imaginations as those we have, He knew what the sky would mean to us. And since nothing in His work is accidental, if He knew, He intended it. We cannot be certain that this was not indeed one of the chief purposes for which Nature was created; still less that it was not one of the chief reasons why the withdrawal was allowed to affect human senses as a movement upwards. (A disappearance into the Earth would beget a wholly different religion.) The ancients in letting the spiritual symbolism of the sky flow straight into their minds without stopping to discover by analysis that it was a symbol, were not entirely mistaken. In one way were perhaps less mistaken than we. For we have falling into an opposite difficulty. Let us confess that probably every Christian now alive finds a difficulty in reconciling the two things one has been told about “Heaven”—that it is, on the one hand, a life in Christ, a vision of God in this life, the body seems almost irrelevance. And if we try to conceive our eternal life as one in a body (any kind of body) we tend to find that some vague dream of Platonic paradises and gardens of the Hesperides has substituted itself for that mystical approach which we feel (and I think rightly) to be more important. However, if that discrepancy were final then it would follow—which is absurd—that God was originally mistaken when He introduced our spirits into the Natural order at all. We must conclude that the discrepancy itself is precisely one of the disorders which the New Creation comes to heal. #RandolphHarris 3 of 21

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The fact that the body, and locality and locomotion time, now feel irrelevant to the highest reaches of the spiritual life is (like the fact that we can think of our bodies as “coarse”) a symptom. Spirit and Nature have quarrelled us; that is our disease. Nothing we can yet do enables us to imagine its complete healing. Some glimpses and faint hints we have: in the Sacraments, in the use made of sensuous imagery by the great poets, in the best instances of love, in our experiences of the Earth’s beauty. However, the full healing is utterly beyond our present conceptions. Mystics have got as far in contemplation of God as the point at which the sense are banished: the further point, at which they will be put back again, has (to the best of my knowledge) been reached by no one. The destiny of redeemed human is not less but more unimaginable than mysticism would lead us to suppose—because it is full of semi-imaginables which we cannot a present admit without destroying the essential character. One point must be touched on because, though I kept silence, it would none the less be present in most readers’ minds. The letter and spirit of scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be an existence of pleasures of the flesh; and this reduces our imagination to the withering alternative either bodies which are hardly recognizable as human bodies at all or else of a perpetual fast. As regards the fast, I think our present outlook might be like that of a person being told that pleasures of the flesh were the highest bodily pleasure should immediately ask whether you get paid at the same time. On receiving the answer “No,” he might regard absence of money as the chief characteristic of pleasures of the flesh. #RandolphHarris 4 of 21

In vain would you tell him that the reason why lovers in their carnal raptures do not bother about money is that they have something better to think of. The young man knows money: he does not know the absolute thing that excludes it. We are in the same position. We know the life of pleasures of the flesh; we do not know, except in glimpses, the other things which, in Heaven, will leave no room for it. Hence where fulness awaits us we anticipate fasting. In denying that life of pleasures of the flesh, as we now understand it, makes any part of the final beatitude, it is not of course necessary to suppose that the distinction of genders will disappear. What is no longer needed for biological purposes may be expected to survive for splendour. Passionate intimacy is the instrument both of chastity, virginity, and conjugal virtue; neither men nor women will be asked to throw away weapons they have used victoriously. It is the beaten and the fugitives who throw away their swords. The conquerors sheathe theirs and retain them. As it stands here on Earth, the Law of Chastity states we are to have pleasures of the flesh only with our spouse to whom we are legally married. No one, male or female, is to have pleasures of the flesh before marriage. After marriage, pleasures of the flesh are permitted only with our spouse. “Thou shalt not commit adultery; and one that committeth adultery, and repenteth not, shall be cast out,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 42.24. I am well aware that this last paragraph may seem to many readers unfortunate and to some comic. However, that very comedy, as I must repeatedly insist, is the symptom of our estrangement, as spirits, from Nature and our estrangement, as terrestrial beings, from Spirit. #RandolphHarris 5 of 21

The whole conception of the New Creation involves the belief that this estrangement will be healed. A curious consequence will follow. The archaic type of thought which could not clearly distinguish spiritual “Heaven” from the sky, is from our point of view a confused type of thought. However, it also resembles and anticipates a type of thought which will one day be true. That archaic sort of thinking will become simply the correct sort when Nature and Spirit are fully harmonized—when Spirit rides Nature so perfectly that the two together make rather a Centaur than a mounted knight. I do not mean necessarily that the blending of Heaven and sky, in particular, will turn out to be specially true, but that that kind of blending will accurately mirror the reality which will then exist. There will be no room to get the finest razor-blade of thought in between the Spirit and Nature. Every state of affairs in the New Nature will be the perfect expression of a spiritual state and every spiritual state the perfect informing of, and blood upon, a state of affairs; one with it as the perfume with a flower or the “spirit” of great poetry with its form. There is thus in the history of human thought, as elsewhere, a pattern of death and rebirth. The old, richly imaginative thought which still survives in Plato has to submit to the deathlike, but indispensable, process of logical analysis: nature and spirit, matter and mind, fact and myth, the literal and the metaphorical, have to be more and more sharply separated, till at las purely mathematical Universe and a purely subjective mind confront one another across an unbridgeable chasm. However, this descent also, if thought itself is to survive, there must be re-ascent and the Christian conception provides for it. #RandolphHarris 6 of 21

Those who attain the glorious resurrection will see the dry bones clothed again with flesh, the fact and the myth remarried, the literal and the metaphorical rushing together. With this awakening one begins to relate one’s own purpose in life to the universal purpose. Like the falling of a bandage from the eyes of a blindfolded man, there will come plainly into one’s understanding the recognition of one’s past misdeeds, foolhardiness, and failings—all of them the consequence of one’s ignorant clinging to the ego. This is the vision which may come to one before one begins to purify oneself. A vivid, intense, and self-critical revelation of how “sinful” one has been may preceded, accompany, or follow the glimpse. It may shake one to one’s core. However, it cannot be said that one feels one has betrayed one’s best and higher being any more than it can be said a child has betrayed the adult it has not yet grown into. One understands this at the same time and so forgives oneself. That glorious glimpse wherein the All becomes bathed in the light of meaning, when the reality behind comes through and leaves one enriched: it is as if a web of illusion spun around the mind falls away. From that time one will look out on the World with clearer eyes. In the mystical happening of the Glimpse, the human gets the intuition that this is what one belongs to; here one can find rest. In the sunlit tranquility of such moments, one recognizes one’s true stature. In short, one possesses a kind of double entity, harbouring at times within one’s breast a life and consciousness that seem higher than what was originally and still is normally one’s own. #RandolphHarris 7 of 21

In this moment of illumination one is able to look into the image of one’s own self, to see what is best and highest in it and accept that as one’s goal and ideal henceforth. One will know only that one stands in the presence of authority and love, truth and power, wisdom and beauty. The experience tells one vividly, luminously, and memorably that there is an existence beyond the physical one and a consciousness beyond the personal one. Another reason why glimpses are given to humans is to show one—as in a magic mirror—that there is such a thing as the Overself. These brief enlightenments give us clues to both the true way and the true goal. They point within. As the picture of the True comes forth, it obliterates the picture of the False which held one so long. The glimpse gives one an untrammelled consciousness of this freer and higher self. Disjointed fragments of comprehension may be picked up now and then, when the World-scene is lightened up by some grace. The passing from hope to certainty comes with the glimpse. As the glimpse lengthens, it draws the human to look into oneself. It is showing one what one is deep down—a vivid and personal demonstration! From that time life is susceptible of a higher interpretation, and its situations of a psychological meaning. The mind is irradiated with the light of a new understanding. The heart is lifted up into the joy of a new experience. What one now knows, one knows outside all doubting, immovably and unshakeably. One is now sure that there is a higher power behind this World. When this felicitous glimpse comes to a human it beings one certitude. One knows now that God IS and where He is. The glimpse not only throws a fresh impersonal light on all the episodes of one’s personal history that went before, but also on those which are happening now. #RandolphHarris 8 of 21

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One who penetrates to this inner citadel discovers what Saint Augustine called “the eternal truth of the soul.” The glimpse confirms existing religious faith and so strengthens it. At such times one feels the World mystery, for now that one knows so much esoteric truth one knows so little of THATT which is behind it all. The rapture of finding truth comes because it is truth. The revelation wells up slowly, quietly, deeply; it is unflatering and continues so long as one does not interrupt or interfere with it by one’s own thoughts. It is really one’s own innermost guide and guru, one’s higher self. It is in such moments of enlightenment that one comes to see that all these evils may be there, but they will do. “Seeing the point” which solves the problem of existence, suddenly getting the glimpse of what all this means, and nothing how it was here all the time staring one in the face, may cause a human to break out abruptly into laughter at oneself. One knows from this experience that one is incipient with a love that the World does not ordinarily know, with a goodness that it seldom sees in action, and with an understanding that lights up dark places in the course of life. Each glimpse is a precious gift to be treasured. However, we must also remember that it not only comes, but it also goes. This remembrance should make us treat its aftermath very carefully, very delicately, and very watchfully. The remark so often made that “Heaven is a state of mind” bears witness to the wintry and deathlike phase of this process in which we are now living. The implication is that if Heaven is a state of mind—or, more correctly, of the spirit—then it must be only a state of the spirit, or at least that anything else, if added to that state of spirit, would be irrelevant. #RandolphHarris 9 of 21

That is what every great religion except Christianity would say. However, Christian teaching by saying that God made the World and called it good teaches that Nature or environment cannot be simply irrelevant to spiritual beatitude in general, however far in one particular Nature, during the days of her bondage, they may have drawn apart. By teaching the resurrection of the body it teaches that Heaven is not merely a state of the spirit butt a state of the body as well: and therefore a state of Nature as a whole. Christ, it is true, told His hearers that the Kingdom of Heaven was “within” or “among” them. However, His hearers were not merely in “a state of mind.” The planet He had created was beneath their feet, His sun above their heads; blood and lungs and guts were working in the bodies He had invented, photons and sound waves of Hs devising were blessing them with the sigh of His human face and the sound of His voice. We are never merely in a state of mind. The prayer and the meditation made in howling wind or quiet sunshine, in morning alacrity or evening resignation, in youth or age, good health or ill, may be equally, but are differently, blessed. Already in this present life we have all seen how God can take up all these seeming irrelevancies into the spiritual fact and cause them to bear no small part in marking the blessing of that moment to be the particular blessing it was—as fire can burn coal and wood equally but a wood fire is different from a coal one. From this factor of environment Christianity does not teach us to desire a total release. We desire, like St. Paul, not to be un-clothed but to be re-clothed: to find not the formless Everywhere-and-Nowhere but the promised land, that Nature which will be always and perfectly—as present Nature is partially and intermittently—the instrument for that music which will then rise between Christ and us. #RandolphHarris 10 of 21

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And what, you ask, does it matter? Do not such ideas only excite us and distract us from the more immediate and more certain things, the love of God and our neighbours, the bearing of the daily cross? If you find that they so distract you, think of then no more. I most fully allow that it is of more importance for you or me to-day to refrain from one sneer or to extend one charitable thought to an enemy than to know all that Angels and Archangels know about the mysteries of the New Creation. I write of these things because they are the most important but because this essay is about miracles. I suspect that our conception of Heaven as merely a state of mind is not unconnected with the fac that the specifically Christian virtue of Hope has in our time grown so languid. Where our father, peering into the future, saw gleams of gold, we see only the mist, white, featureless, cold and never moving. The though at the back of all this negative spirituality is really one forbidden to Christians. They, of all humans, must no conceive spiritual joy and worth as things that need to be rescued or tenderly protected from time and place and matter and he senses. Their God is the God of corn and oil and premium cranberry juice. He is the glad Creator. He has become Himself incarnate. The sacraments have been instituted. Certain spiritual gifts are offered us only on condition that we perform certain bodily acts. After that we cannot really be in doubt of His intention. To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from Ultimate Driving Machines instead of learning to ride in the gentleman’s express. #RandolphHarris 11 of 21

There is in our present pilgrim condition plenty of room (more room than most of us like) for abstinence and renunciation and mortifying our natural desires. However, behind all asceticism the thought should be, “If we cannot be trusted even with the wealth that perishes, who will trust us with the true wealth the true wealth?” If I cannot control my Earthly body, who will trust me with a spiritual body? These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as pines are given to schoolboys. We must learn to manage: not that we may some day be free of horses altogether but that some day we may ride without worry, confident and rejoicing, those greater mounts, those winged, shining and World-shaking horses which perhaps even now expect us with impatience, pawning and snorting in the King’s stables. Not hat the gallop would be of any value unless it were a gallop with the King; but how else—since He has retained His own charger—should we accompany Him? [The Lord Said,] “My gracious favour is all you need. My power works best in your weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weakness, so that the power of Christ may work through me, reports 2 Corinthians 12.9. My dear Devout, as you already know, there is no security in this life. As long as you live, you will have to bear spiritual arms. Why? Every day you traffic among enemies, and every day you are impugned from the right as well as from the left; that is as Paul described the Christian condition in his Second Letter to the Corinthians (6.7). Indeed, they are coming at you from all sides. If, therefore, you do not protect yourself with the Psalmist’s shield of patience (91.4), you will not be long without a wound. #RandolphHarris 12 of 21

Are you allowing your weaknesses and insecurities to keep you from being your best? Are you making excuses as to why you cannot take a new leadership position at work, or get involved in some program in your church, serve in your community, or help a friend in need? Rather than giving too much attention to your insecurities and weaknesses, decide today to focus on your God. Moreover, if you do not place your heart firmly in God, with the pure intention of suffering everything for God’s sake, you will not be able to sustain that ardor of yours, not will you be able to reach the palm of success at the end. God loves you and wants to help you achieve extraordinary success. You may have some doubt to your competence, but God will help you to overcome that. “These times I called upon the Lord and besought [Him] about this and begged that it might depart from me; but He said to me, My grace (My favour and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weakness and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me! So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities, and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], than I am [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength),” reports 2 Corinthians 12.9-10. God does not want your status to be based on someone else’s values. #RandolphHarris 13 of 21

When you base you worth on nonbiblical concepts that are contrary to God’s opinion of you, it hurts His feelings. Yet many people do just that. Consequently, they feel insignificant and unworthy to receive God’s attention, much less His blessings. Their poor self-image keeps them from exercising their God-given gifs and authority, and it robs them of experiencing the abundant life their Heavenly Father wants them to have. Most often, the lack of joy and meaning in their lives is a direct result of how those individuals see themselves. What to do now? Verily, you have to act vilely, that is to say, heat up your resistance against all who oppose you. For the Torrid there will be manna at the end, or so the Book of Revelations promises (2.17); but for the Torpid there will be only misery in the aftermath. Beware of associating with or adopting the attitudes of people who, through their negative outlook and lack of self-esteem, will rob you of the greatness that God has for you. People may seem more powerful than you, like giants. However, our God is formidable, and much bigger. Granted the people are strong and can start a fight in an empty house, our God is stronger. Because of Him, we are well able. Let us go in at once and possess the land. Rest and repose you will have, but do you want it in this life or the next? Choose one. But which one. Which is better to choose, great rest or great patience? Choose the latter. Seek True peace, not on Earth, but in Heaven; not in Humankind or in other creatures, but in God alone. For the love of God you ought to freely undergo everything; that is to say, labours and dolors, temptations and vexations, anxieties and necessities, infirmities and injuries, apprehensions and reprehensions, humiliations and confusions. #RandolphHarris 14 of 21

All these are stepping-stones to virtue. They test the raw recruit for Christ; they are materials of the Heavenly Crown. How do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as successful? Healthy? Upbeat? Happy? Do you see yourself as being used by God? Do you see yourself as “well able” to do what God wants you to do, strong in the Lord and the power of His might? Or have you allowed yourself to become defeated? God sees you as “well able” people, not disabled, not crazy, not broken, not evil, not ugly. Not because we are so powerful, but because our God is so powerful! When you face adversity and hardship in life, you can rise up with boldness and confidence, knowing that because of God, you are well able to overcome them. Learn to see yourself as God sees you—as a winner, an overcomer, as “well able.” God wants you to accomplish great things in life, and He has put incredible potential, gifts, and talents within you to enable you to do so. Start stepping out in faith and acting on the desire that He has placed in your heart. I acknowledge my weakness, Father, knowing that as I trust You to work in and through me, You make me strong. You make me adequate despite my insecurities; You provide the power to accomplish all that You ask me to do. Reward time. For a good if short life, God will return Eternal Life. For finite confusion on this Earth, God will give Infinite Confirmation. Do you think you will always have spiritual consolations? God’s Saints did not have them all the time. Most of the time what they had were depressions, temptations, and desolations. However, they withstood them patiently, knowing that, as Paul had told the Romans (8.18), “The passions of this time are not to be compared to the attainments of future glory.” #RandolphHarris 15 of 21

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Do you want to have right away what many have scarcely obtained after many tears and great labours? “Wait for the Lord like everyone else,” advised God’s Psalmist (27.14), “then act like a man!” And take comfort. Do not be different. Do not give it up. Let your body and soul constantly radiate the patience of God. I will be with your every step of the way, as My Psalmist has promised (19.15), and in the end God will reward you handsomely. “And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are in the midst of this people [of America], that You, Lord, are seen face to face, and that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of fire by night,” reports Numbers 14.14. Even more mystifying and upsetting for them is the crack-up of the industrial mass society in which they were trained to operate. Second Wave managers were taught that mass production, that a mass market wants standardized goods, that mass distribution is essential, that “masses” of uniform workers are basically all alike and can be motivated by uniform incentives. The effective manager learned that synchronization, centralization, maximization, and concentration are necessary to achieve one’s goals. And in a Second Wave environment these assumptions were basically correct. Today, as the Third Wave strikes, the corporate manager finds all one’s old assumptions were basically correct. Today, as the Third Wave is up and running, the corporate manager finds all one’s old assumptions challenged. The mass society itself, for which the corporation was designed, is de-massifying. No merely information, production, and family life, but the marketplace and the labour market as well are breaking into smaller, more varied pieces. #RandolphHarris 16 of 21

The mass market has split into ever-multiplying, ever-changing sets of min-markets that demand a continually expanding rage of options, models, types, sizes, colour, and customizations. So physical stores need to be larger, and to accommodate the demands of consumers and the vast range of products expected, they are moving to new suburban communities where they can still find land that is available for development to build these superstores to accommodate all the products consumers expect in the marketplace. Stores that find they cannot meet consumer demand, notice a reduction in revenue because consumer turn to the holy grail, the Internet. BMW used to basically have three cars, the 3 Series, 5 Series, and 7 Series, now they have well over 30 different models in production. The vice president of BMW said, “we will be going into greater specialization with more different departments.” The fast-increasing variety of goods and services in the high technology nations is often explained away as an attempt by the corporation to manipulate the consumer, to invent false needs, and to inflate profits by charging a lot for trivial options. No doubt, there is truth to these charges. Yet something deeper is at work. For the growing differentiation of goods or services also reflects the growing diversity of actual requirements, desires, values, and lifestyles in a de-massified Third Wave/Fourth Wave society. This rising level of social diversity is fed by further divisions in the labour market, as reflected in the proliferation of new occupations, especially white-collar and service fields. Newspaper want ads calmour of “Vydec Secretary” or “Mini-Cooper computer Programmer,” while at a conference on the service professions I watched a psychologist list 68 new occupations from consumer advocate, corporate attorney, and Yoga instructor to psycho-chemotherapist and federal private investigators. #RandolphHarris 17 of 21

As our jobs become less interchangeable, people do too. Refusing to be treated as interchangeable, they arrive at the workplace with an acute consciousness of their ethnic, religious, professional, sexual, subcultural, and individual differences. Groups that throughout the Second Wave era fought to be “integrated” or “assimilated” into mass society now refuse to melt their differences. They emphasize instead their unique characteristics. And Second Wave corporations, still organized for operation in a mass society, are still uncertain how to cope with this rising tide of diversity among their employees and customers. Though sharply evident in the United States of America, social de-massification is progressing rapidly elsewhere as well. In Britain, which once regarded itself as highly homogenous, marginalized groups, from Pakistanis, West Indians, Cypriots, and Ugandan Asians to Turks and Spaniards now intermingle with a native population itself becoming more heterogeneous. Meanwhile, a tidal influx of Japanese, American, German, Dutch, Arabic, and African visitors leave in their wake American hamburger stands, apple pie, baseball, Japanese tempura restaurants and signs in store windows that read “Se Habla Espanol.” Around the World, underrepresented ethnic groups reassert their identities and demand long-denied rights to jobs, income, and advancement in the corporation. Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maoris, Canadian Eskimos, American Africans, Chicanos, and even Asians once regarded as politically passive are on the move and many are turning into Republicans because they believe in private property and lower corporate taxes, as many are business owners. #RandolphHarris 18 of 21

From Maine to the Far West, Native Americans assert “Native Power,” demand the restoration of tribal lands, and dicker with the OPEC countries for economic and political support. Even in Japan, long the most homogenous of the industrial nations, the signs of demassification are mounting. An uneducated convict overnight emerges as spokes person for a small group of Ainu people. The underrepresented Koran groups grows restless, and sociologist Masaaki Takane of Sophia University says, “I have been haunted by anxiety….Japanese society today is quickly losing its unity and disintegrating.” In Denmark scattered streets fights break out between Danes and immigrant workers and between leather-jacket motorcyclists and long-hair youth. In Belgium the Walloons, the Flemish, and the Bruxelloises reactivate ancient, indeed preindustrial, rivalries. In Canada Quebec threatens to secede, corporations padlock their headquarters in Montreal, and English-speaking executives throughout the country take crash courses in French. The forces that made mass society have suddenly been thrown into reverse. Nationalism in the high-technology context becomes regionalism instead. The pressures of the melting pot are replaced by the new ethnicity. The media, instead of creating a mass culture, de-massify it. In turn all these developments parallel the emerging diversity of energy forms and the advance beyond mass production. All these interrelated changes create a totally new framework within which the production organization of society, whether called corporations or socialist enterprises, will function. Executives who continue to think in terms of the mass society are shocked and confused by a World they no longer recognize. #RandolphHarris 19 of 21

If it were part of a larger program of living that included the spiritual, the Occidental worship of bodily arts, cultures, sports, exercises, and regimes would be excellent. However, it is not. The Occidental mostly stops and ends with glorification of the body. There is a most important difference between the work done in ordinary physical culture and the work done in this system. Those who jump about on a gymnasium floor or lift weights or engage in outdoor sports do so usually for the body’s sake. However, students who follow philosophic teachings practice their exercises for the Quest’s sake. This fully respects the body and cares scrupulously for it. It would be a delusion to believe that the practice of these physical disciplines alone can bring enlightenment. It is not obtainable by stretching the body, or holding the breath, although these may quite indirectly help to prepare the way for obtaining it. The ego must be transcended. It is necessary to make a daily ritual of these cleansing habits and physical exercises as it is of religious or mystical ones. They should be combined, the physical exercises as it is of religious or mystical ones. They should be combined; the physical being practiced before the spiritual as a preparation for it and for the day’s activity. Tai Chi is a system of slow, gentle, graceful movements combined with meditation. It can be used either for self-defense, health, or aesthetics. Breath control is a vial element of this practice. Weight and pressure are made to sink down to what is called in Zen the Hara Center (near the solar plexus). This system belongs to Chinese Taoism. #RandolphHarris 20 of 21

Long ago the dervishes in the Near East used a system of training which gave extraordinary control over the muscular system, swift reflexes, and striking mental concentration. For example, they would direct the movements of one limb while at the same time they directed another limb in a different way. Too much exercise may be as harmful in the end as too little, while improper exercise may be more injurious than either. Those who show their impatience by constantly tapping with their fingers or who betray their nervousness by fidgeting with their feet would benefit by a course in hatha yoga, but all such exercises are prohibited to anyone suffering from high blood pressure. Do not stifle me with the strange scent of low growing mountain lilies—do no confuse me with the salubrious odor of honeysuckle! I cannot separate in my mind sweetness from sweetness—mimosa from wild white violets; magnolia from Cape Jasmine! I am from the north tide country, I can understand only the scent of seaweed; salt marsh and scrub pine riding on the breath of an amorous frog! O do not confuse me with sweetness upon sweetness; let me escapes safely from this gentle madness—let me go back to the salt of sanity in the scent of the sea. For that glad prophetess who danced before the camp, to them whose heart was sad and sore, from whom there rose and sank a well of water—save them that dwelt in goodly tents of yore, save them our Father. For him who in the tent was fain to stay, on whom the spirit shone, who went his way O’er Jordan, and Thou didst divide the water—save her, the beautiful and pure as day, save her, our Father. For his sake who besought a sign, who cried “Where by Thy wonders?” and at morning-tide wringed dew from out the fleece, a bowl of water—save her who was in America a bride, save her, our Father. #RandolphHarris 21 of 21