Why Precisely Do We Want

An Attitude To Life Which Seeks Fulfillment In The Single-minded Pursuit Of Wealth - In Short, Materialism - Does Not Fit Into This World, Because It Contains Within Itself No Limiting Principle, While The Environment In Which It Is Placed Is Strictly Limited.

To Organize Work In Such A Manner That It Becomes Meaningless, Boring, Stultifying, Or Nerve-racking For The Worker Would Be Little Short Of Criminal; It Would Indicate A Greater Concern With Goods Than With People, An Evil Lack Of Compassion And A Soul-destroying Degree Of Attachment To The Most Primitive Side Of This Worldly Existence.

It Is Doubly Chimerical To Build Peace On Economic Foundations Which, In Turn, Rest On The Systematic Cultivation Of Greed And Envy, The Very Forces Which Drive Men Into Conflict.

From The Point Of View Of The Employer, It Is In Any Case Simply An Item Of Cost, To Be Reduced To A Minimum If It Cannot Be Eliminated Altogether, Say, By Automation. From The Point Of View Of The Workman, It Is A "disutility"; To Work Is To Make A Sacrifice Of One's Leisure And Comfort, And Wages Are A Kind Of Compensation For The Sacrifice.

...liberation From Constraints That Operate At The Level Of Ordinary Humanity---limits Imposed By Space And Time, By The Needs Of The Body, And By The Opaqueness Of The Computer-like Mind. All Three Examples [jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, And Therese Neumann] Illustrates The Paradoxical Truth That Such 'higher Powers' Cannot Be Acquired By Any Kind Of Attack Or Conquest Conducted By The Human Personality; Only When The Striving For 'power' Has Entirely Ceased And Been Replaced By A Certain Transcendental Longing, Often Called The Love Of God, May They, Or May They Not Be 'added Unto You.