More letters to the Editor. 

Unlimited wish fulfilment as panacea for the world's problems.

Some of the letters I received see the panacea for all our ills in more, not less, individual freedom. Here is one example:

"The root of our problem is the fact that we do not have material abundance (that is, the ability to have our physical needs fulfilled automatically through abundance of physical requirements - no deprivation). Our problem is our ignorance of matter. Once we have mastered matter and material abundance becomes a reality there will be no need for conflict. We will all be on equal footing and will no longer have to compete for survival. We will be able to live in true prosperity, love and peace."

Jan Shepherd, Toronto, Ont., Canada

(Explaining T. Kun's "Project Mind")


Jan Shepherd enclosed in his letter a review of the book Project Mind, of which I decided to use excerpts (although I strongly disagree with utopian visions which blind us to what can be done) because it provides a thorough insight into the problems and challenges we face.

Project Mind is about meaning - the meaning of life, humankind's destiny, and more specifically, humanity's "mission" in life in our time, the end of the 20th century. Based on the esoteric teachings of the

Kaballah, it describes the essence theory of Creation imparting the true meaning and potentials of essence, desire and the creative chanelling of knowledge. As well as revealing mystical secrets in practical, concrete and modern terms, it provides an in-depth look into the philosophical, psychological and spiritual aspects of humanity's predicament.

The author presents the results of his 40 year quest to resolve the cosmic enigma - Project Mind. A "higher creative think tank" is designed to reveal humanity's latent, creative genius and fulfil the

promise of blessings and abundance that science has always extended.

[Four truly new ideas are listed:]

1. In a time of growing global crisis of overpopulation, pollution and war, Project Mind brings hope and the means to fulfil that hope. The way out of this crisis is through universal "utopian abundance" created by a holistic break-through science which is the object of the project.

2. Project Mind shows that humanity's genius will master matter and create total abundance. Total abundance will:

- devalue material possessions

- eliminate materialism, wage-slavery, suffering, etc.

- reveal the potential and destiny of us all

- initiate a new age of "transparent, coherent and harmonius development" generative of omniscience and immortality.

Human desire habitually attaches itself to rare and valued objects. Once what we call "objects" (the physical embodiments of concept and form) can be replicated at will, desire will have no choice but to cleave to the metaphysical.

3. The new breakthrough science proposes will be purely contemplative," "vision-driven" and creatively connected, through consciousness, to "higher potentialities" without the need of the mechanical paraphernalia of conventional science.

4. The book claims the existence of individuals who have secretly yearned, all their lives, to unravel at least one of nature's fundamentals. For reasons carefully explained, these individuals have a special degree of aspiration, intensity and integrity capable of making unprecedented efforts of "confrontative thought" and "meditation" on "intractable scientific problems." This, it maintains, is possible because individualizing "essence-desire," that is only latent in the rest of us, is operative in these rare individuals as the motor of "Accelerated Thought." In the words of the author:

"Accelerated Thought is a high-energy mind process whereby realizations arrive second by second in rapid-fire sequence rather than once a week, once a year or once in a lifetime as is typical with Eureka experiences. Just as the Eureka experience provides brief moments of brilliant insight - the divine sparks of genius and inspiration that have fuelled the sudden advances in scientific progress until now - Accelerated Thought will provide sustained creative vision. This will establish an ongoing link with higher consciousness, producing a powerful cosmic current chanelled through essence from a higher dimension."

The author draws liberally from popular literature quoting authors from Woody Allen through Arthur Koestler all the way to Ayn Rand. He also quotes fairly esoteric sources....

The author does not make spirituality a condition for understanding his book or even for participating in his project. He even goes as far as to point out what he considers the shortcomings of classical spirituality for having failed to confront the enigma of material restriction as the prime source of human corruption and suffering, and thus in failing to appeal to the mass of modern men.