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BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="2768dfc3.jpg"> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="23c9cf20.jpg" border=0 width="156" height="242" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Times New Roman" >  </FONT><B>E = mc</B><B>2</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Thus Begins Man's Conscious Transformation!</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>TOWARD THE FUTURE</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">With Einstein's monumental discovery of the interchangeability of matter and energy, the march of man's conscious transformation began its next course in human events.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Then came the next step with Heisenberg's <I>Uncertainty Principle</I>, or <I>principle of indeterminacy,</I></div> <div>        that undermined absolute determinism.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Next, Freud explores the <I>unconscious </I>to its foundations.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Then Jung introduces us to the <I>collective unconsciou</I>s that harbors everything human from and for all times.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">More remotely, Bohm's and Bell's <B>nonlocality </B>postulations complement our commonplace notion of the locality of everything; that is to say, that ultimately there is no locality of anything;  that all "things" reduce into oneness.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Then the literary works of D.H. Lawrence, Hermann Hesse, Camus, Breton, and others translated the physics and psychology of science into the human term of <I><B>love</B></I><B> </B>and moral committment, and its various human manifestations and semantics.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Next the 1960 decade explodes into our consciousness with the Beatles, and then American rock, that takes the literature of love and transforms it into a youth movement of love, peace, and understanding, conjoined with all other minority movements. [See <A HREF="id9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="REVOLUTION AND THE BEATLES"><U><I>Revolution and the Beatles</I></U></A>] </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Most recently, Marilyn Ferguson's journalistic masterwork, <I>The Aquarian Conspiracy ,</I>compresses all these twentieth century findings into a coherent perspective of the personal / social state of mind of our times.</div> <div> And finally the electronics of the personal computer and the internet bring all these findings into the potential of  mass awareness.</div> <bR> <div> "...there is an evident  relevance to the universally recognized need in our time for a </div> <div> general transformation of consciousness [a consciousness beyond] the five thousand </div> <div> years of what James Joyce has termed the 'nightmare' (ofcontending tribal and national </div> <div> interests) from which it is now certainly time for this planet to wake."  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >   </FONT></div> <div>                                                                                                    <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >- Joseph Campbell, mythologist</FONT></div> <bR> <div> "Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality." </div> <div>                                                                                                  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > - Nikos Kazanzakis, novelist</FONT></div> <bR> <div> "Only by understanding can we get the better of destiny." </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                                      <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >- Hermann Hesse, novelist</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>=================</B></div> <bR> <div> And so, here we are in our day in the midst of this conscious transformation that harbingers so much more to come that it goes far beyond our comprehension.</div> <div> And how do we adjust to this conscious transformation, how do we develop into it? </div> <div> The following welcoming, outline and comments, including this website as a whole, answers this question.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="556" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 321 WIDTH="544"><div> <B>WELCOME </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>TO THE CONSCIOUS TRANSFORMATION</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Toward the Ascendancy of Justice and Wisdom </B></div> <div> <B>over Injustice and Ignorance</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>[</B>With support from the ideas and ideals of <B>philosophers</B>: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Aristotle, Plato, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, etc.<B> /  literary authors</B>: Camus, D.H. Lawrence, Hesse, etc. /  <B>poets</B>: Goethe, Shakespeare, Dante, Blake, Shelley, etc.<B> / classic rock musicians: </B>John Lennon, The Beatles, U2, The BeeGees, Neil Young, Perfect Circle, etc.  /  <B>psychologists/psychiatrists</B>: Jung, Freud, etc. <B>physicists</B>: Einstein, Heisenberg , Jeans, Bohm, Stromberg, Eddington, etc. /  <B>sages</B>: Emerson, Thoreau, Krishnamurti, Gandhi, Vivekananda, The Bible's Wisdom Books etc. <B>/  seers</B>: Jesus, Paul, Buddha, Ramakrishna, Krishnamurti, The Upanishads, The Gita, etc.<B>]</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="555" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 588 WIDTH="543"><div> <B>AN OUTLINE</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> We are in the midst of a <B>conscious transformation </B>that will gradually lead to the ascendancy of justice and wisdom over injustice and ignorance.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> It is mainly through<B> wisdom</B> that this conscious transformation will take place in both the individual and society.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Love</B>, as the bond of all unity, underlies this human-transcendent </div> <div> wisdom.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Understanding </B>is the keystone to this human-transcendent wisdom from which personal freedom leads to self-freedom.</div> <bR> <div> An <B>education </B>in understanding, both <I>self</I>-understanding and <I>contextual </I>understanding leads to this human-transcendent wisdom. </div> <bR> <div> In order for both this wisdom and education to thrive both personally and socially, we need a <B>society </B>beneficial to this endeavor.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Put together, these three distinctive endeavors <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >-- </FONT>a new wisdom, education, and society <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> form a <B>culture </B>unique to their purpose, which is, to evolve the conscious transformation. </div> <bR> <div> As this conscious transformation evolves within and without us, the <U>ascendancy of wisdom and justice</U> will gradually take precedence over ignorance and injustice.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>                                                                                               </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>1</B> </div> <div> We are in the midst of a conscious transformation <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> a transformation of consciousness that goes beyond knowing to understanding, beyond reason to intuition, beyond self-love to selfless-love; a transformation in which justice and wisdom will gradually take the ascendancy over injustice and ignorance through the Meaning of Love.</div> <div> The current momentum of this transformation of consciousness has been gradually accelerating for the past forty, or so, years now in books, magazines, the arts, the sciences, the professions, social services, in everyday life. It is what is called in intellectual circles a paradigm shift <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> a shift in values, beliefs, and attitudes, from the old to the new in all walks of life, as for examples, from certainty to uncertainty, from reason to intuition, from knowledge to wisdom, from religion to spirituality.</div> <div> It is not just a shift for intellectuals, but for everyone, as the human spirit overall is languishing from stagnate, out-dated patterns of beliefs and values, is reeling from the continuous onslaught of techno-electronic innovations, is bewildered by the vast array of human diversity turned loose so that we can no longer look the other way, nor only to traditional ways.</div> <div> <I>Somehow</I> it is the evolution, the progression, of our consciousness through the proliferation of knowledge that has brought us to this state of affairs, and it is incumbent upon us to move with it personally, interpersonally, and socially. </div> <div> Accordingly, we need an <U>integrated</U> <I><B>wisdom</B></I> so that we act wisely amidst these complexities, an <U>in-depth</U> <I><B>education</B></I> so that we think clearly amidst them, an <U>independent-beneficial</U> <I><B>society</B></I> so that we secure this integrated wisdom and in-depth education, amidst them, and a <U>unifying </U><B>spirituality</B> so that keep in touch with the <I>source </I>of this conscious transformation. </div> <bR> <div> This <U>integrated wisdom</U> has to take into account the full spectrum of human nature and relationships, pertaining to both good (goodness) and evil (malice), weaknesses and strengths, love and lust, passion and compassion, hard and soft natured persons, ego and self, emotion and sentiment, religion and spirituality, morality, immorality, amorality, knowledge and understanding <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> in a nutshell: our humanness and our transcendence. Somehow we have to integrate, balance, these two familiar opposites of our nature. This is done through a training that gets to the truth of our human and transcendent nature, and to our relationships therefrom.</div> <div> This training is achieved through reading of, and enquiries into, pertinent passages from three sources <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT>: from <B>eminent persons</B>, such as,Thoreau, Camus, Hesse, Aristotle, Plato, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, D.H. Lawrence, Shakespeare, Jesus, Buddha, Krishnamurti, Vivekananda, Einstein, Lord Byron, Shelley, Walt Whitman, Freud, Jung, to name a few; and  from <B>perceptive persons</B>, such as,<B> </B>actors, directors, writers, musicians, professionals, carpenters, truck drivers, and other ordinary persons; and from a <B>contemplative person</B>: myself. </div> <bR> <div> Without this training toward an integrated wisdom <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >-- </FONT>or wisdom of the species, so to speak <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> there can be no transformation of consciousness in the true, full, sense of the word. For instance, anyone can give away money <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> that is easy <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> but to do all this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, for the right reason, and in the right way is no longer something easy that anyone can do. This takes a practical wisdom derived from much psychological knowledge of human nature.</div> <bR> <div> This training is not basically prescriptive <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> do this, do not do that <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> but rather exploratory, enquiring. It is an enquiry that takes one into the depths of his self and up to the heights of his being, such that he cannot help but grow beyond the limiting confines of his ego-sensual self. This self-transcending process is not meant in an <I>absolute </I>sense so that one becomes godlike or monklike; but rather is meant as relative to one's individual capacity and circumstances. </div> <bR> <div> This <U>in-depth education</U> is a training in <B>critical and creative thinking</B> for children and youths, in particular. This training teaches students to understand their reading material by exercising them <I>at</I> <I>the same time as, </I>or<I> concurrently with what, </I>they read.  With this training students develop an awareness sensitive to the fine nuances of contextual meaning that include analysis, synthesis, interpretation, inferences, relationships, projections, creativity. This fine-tuned training prepares students not only to understand their textbook materials, but to extend that understanding to <I>self-</I>understanding as it affects their everyday encounters and relationships. Hence wisdom.</div> <bR> <div> As regards the<U> independent-beneficial society</U>, it will come about as a <I>society-within-a-society</I>; meaning, we continue to function as citizens of our mainstream society: politically, socially, economically, obeying its laws and partaking in its institutions. But underlying and complementing this society is a participation of people taking care of its own benefits and interests and needs without having recourse to, or conflicting with, the main society. </div> <div> This independent-beneficial society centralizes and consolidates the benefits derived from the wisdom and education necessary to the movement toward the ascendancy of justice and wisdom.</div> <bR> <div> And finally, this unifying spirituality has its source, Love, as the <I>bond </I>of all unity. The meaning of Love as it relates to humanity is somehow to evolve</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>2</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> As <U>wisdom</U> is the psychological and spiritual mainstay of  this conscious transformation , we have to take a long look at its meaning and practicality; and this takes place in PART 1 of Book 1 of <I>Of Love and Wisdom </I>(See sidebar). But for now an outline will suffice.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The wisdom in point is a life in balance between our humanness (our all-too-human side) and our transcendence (our more-than-human side). This balance is what I term a<B> human-transcendent wisdom</B>.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The underlying basis, or principle, of this human-transcendent wisdom is <B>Transcendent</B> <B>Love </B>(or simply Love capitalized<B>)</B>: that which binds all things in unity from protozoa to humans, from sand to canyons, from atoms to stars <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> from here to eternity.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">This human-transcendent wisdom is attained through an understanding of our humanness and our transcendence, and their relationship to, and balance between, each other; and through a lifelong endeavor charged with challenge and purpose.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Through this integrated, balanced, wisdom we are gradually able to transform, that is, to broaden, our consciousness from the limiting confines of our self-love to a more selfless love that encompasses and embraces a far broader understanding of our self, of others, of  human relationships, of the meaning of our life and of life itself <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> in a word: self-understanding.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">It is this self-transcending process that is meant by the phrase "the transformation of human consciousness," not only of our self but of others as well in ever increasing numbers; and it is this marvel that lies behind Pierre Teilhard DeChardin's prophecy expressed in the following words:</div> <div> "Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and   gravity, we shall harness...the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>6</B></div> <bR> <div> As <U>justice</U> is wisdom applied socially, we have to take just as long a look at its social implications; and this takes place in Book 8, <I>The Public Benefit </I>(See sidebar). But for now the following brief comments will suffice.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">What does this conscious transformation imply regarding <I>justice</I>? A utopia of world peace and love and brotherhood? Hardly. Not so long as our human nature necessitates conflict in its wide range of intellect and emotions, wants and needs, self and other selves. What then? Well, ask yourself this: Who usually does best in a situation of conflict? The aggressors, right! <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> those who live for, whose comfort zone is, conflict ? either physically or mentally, for good or for ill, deviously or straightforwardly. Remember the old maxim, or doctrine: "Might is right." <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> right or wrong. Now, this conscious transformation takes this maxim and revolves it <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> revolution! <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >-- </FONT>so that the reality becomes "<I>Right</I> is might" <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> transformation! In which case, justice and wisdom <U>predominate</U> over injustice and ignorance; they do not <U>eradicate</U> injustice and ignorance. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">And so, the transformed maxim "Right is might." is to be the catchword and the catalyst for the Movement toward this conscious transformation.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>7</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The following notes are a sequential outline of this conscious transformation movement, as set forth on this website.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">We are in the midst of a conscious transformation.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">We need a new wisdom, underscored by Love, as the bond of all unity to accompany this conscious transformation. This wisdom is a human-transcendent wisdom. This human-transcendent wisdom encompasses a humanness psychology, a transcendent philosophy, and a Love divinity.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">This Love divinity is our inward God.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Our inward divinity <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> Love <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> can be "Experienced;" which is the proof of Its Reality.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Having this proof of its Reality, we then next assimilate its ultimate, eternal truths into</div> <div>       our daily lives through the spirituality of  religion <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> Love spirituality, to be precise.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">This assimilation happens through self-understanding that ensues from the human</div> <div>        transcendent wisdom in relation to the various manifestations of all-encompassing Love.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Since erotic love is the life force of Love which “turns our world round,” so to speak, this erotic aspect of world Love is analyzed from two perspectives: self-destruction and self-transcendence.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To popularize this wisdom-love unity for the aesthetically sensitive masses, John Lennon's life and music exemplify, represent, this wisdom-love unity.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">From the social aspect of this conscious transformation, the Beatles revolutionize popular culture in preparation for this conscious transformation.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The lyrics and music of significant rock musicians exemplify contemporary popular mass consciousness of this conscious transformation.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">An understanding of the nature and behavior of human evil (psychopathy) is a necessary corollary of human-transcendent wisdom.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">An overview of how to socialize the personal aspect of this conscious transformation finalizes the movement.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>8</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The following six book selections, as set forth on the sidebar, explicate the human-transcendent wisdom underlying the conscious transformation as presented on this website.</B></div> <bR> <div> Book 1:<B> Of Love and Wisdom: Toward Higher Understanding</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> which emphasizes a wisdom of <U>human-transcendence</U> and its various human, transcendent, and human-transcendent, manifestations. </div> <div> Book 2: <B>The Erotic Spell </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> which emphasizes the intense, wild,<B> </B><U>erotic-human</U> manifestation of Love, and its blinding, binding, "instinctual" influence on human beings.</div> <div> Book 3: <B>In Beauty and Passion</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> which emphasizes the intense-deep <U>erotic-transcendent </U>manifestation of Love, and its salutary influence of human beings.</div> <div> Book 4: <I> </I><B>Of Love and the Man: John Lennon</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> which emphasizes the <U>human-transcendent</U> manifestations of Love through the charismatic person of John Lennon with and without the Beatles seeking both personal freedom and self-freedom. </div> <div> Book 5: <B>Rock Lyrics: Interpretations</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> which emphasizes the interpretations of selected lyrics from major rock musicians that are pertinent to the various <U>human-transcendent</U> manifestations of Love from various individual perspectives. .</div> <div> Book 6: <B>Pathics of Evil</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >-- </FONT>which emphasizes the negative, destructive, aspects of the evil in human nature (as manifested in psychopaths, for example) of which we must be acutely aware, and on the offensive against..</div> <div> Book 2: <B>Wisdom Enquiries</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> which emphasizes commentaries on passages selected from Book 1, Part 5 of <I>Toward Higher Understanding </I>for the deepening of one's self-understanding<I> </I>.</div> <div> Book 8. <B>The Public Benefit</B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> which emphasizes the <U>collective-socialization</U> of Love as an independent-beneficial society leading to social-personal self freedom.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>9</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The following additional links, as set forth on the sidebar, complement the  above-mentioned books, each in its unique way.</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TRANSITION"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">TRANSITION: A News-magazine</U></A> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >-- </FONT>which serves as the multi-informative medium that links participants to the relevancy of the conscious transformation movement.</div> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FOR PARTICIPANTS"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">FOR PARTICIPANTS</U></A> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >-- </FONT>which sets forth the pertinent information for those persons interested in participating actively or inactively in the conscious transformation.</div> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="EMAIL EXCHANGE"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">E-MAIL EXCHANGE</U></A> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> which offers participants the opportunity to exchange ideas and ideals with other participants based on the passages on this site, as well as from other pertinent passages elsewhere.</div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BOOK CATALOG"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">BOOK CATALOG</U></A> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >-- </FONT>which offers the book titles available for sale on this wisdom site with cross reference to the studybooks on our education site: <A HREF="http://www.thepublicbenefit.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.thepublicbenefit.com"><U>www.thepublicbenefit.com</U></A>. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PICTURES OF EMINENT PERSONS <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >-- </FONT>which offers pictorial look at the eminent persons whose ideas and ideals have contributed to the purpose of the conscious transformation of man.  </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">STUDIES IN MEANING <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> which is the critical-creative thinking education extension of this website.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Each link on this site is sequentially related to the actualization of this conscious transformation through the process of gaining self-understanding unto self-freedom through a wisdom of human-transcendence. It is this wisdom that we will be educated to and through which a just and wise society will emerge.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>=======================</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>10</B></div> <bR> <div> Putting all these comments together into an overall perspective, there is a conscious transformation underlying the surface of things and events; and the thrust of this transformation is toward the ascendancy of justice and wisdom over injustice and ignorance. For this ascendancy to gradually take place, a networking of people of like mind needs to prevail. And this “like mind” pertains to those who are receptive and sensitive to the broadening of the truth of human reality both psychologically and transcendently. This broadening takes a training; it does not just happen. This training raises our consciousness more than ever before, to the intuitive truths of our humanity “up form,” “out of,” our collective unconscious, in Jung's terms, into the “dawn of day,” in Nietzsche's terms.</div> <bR> <div> This raising of our consciousness frees us considerably from our ungrounded psychological fears and doubts, and settles our transcendent (or spiritual) gropings and longings.</div> <bR> <div> Again, it is this website where this raising of our consciousness takes place by consolidating the “wisdom of our species” with the justice of goodwill and an education in understanding.</div> <bR> <div> Be part of the movement! <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >--</FONT> either for your own personal benefit alone, or for both your and others' benefit. In either case, you will be contributing to the conscious transformation toward the ascendancy of justice and wisdom. For more information on this matter, see the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FOR PARTICIPANTS"><U>FOR PARTICIPANTS</U></A> </FONT>page.</div> <bR> <div> Begin the venture of your life to <I>transform </I>your life by entering the corridors of this distinctive site. All that is required of you is what you require of yourself.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Contact: <A HREF="mailto:ofwisdom@adelphia.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:ofwisdom@adelphia.net"><U>thepublicbenefit@roadrunner.com</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>