[Drifter]

“One does not prove the Truth of an idea by demonstrating
that its founder lived. The evidence of its Truth can only
lie in a man’s experience of it when it enters him.”
(Maurice Nicoll)

Originally Posted by Drifter

There are no causes in the observable world.
The observable world is a world of effects.
Our effectiveness reduces itself to our inability to discriminate between the essential and the non-essential. Our means of evaluation themselves have been inherently incapable of performing realistic appraisal.

The main obstacle to man's developement, is his lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself. It is apparent that the notion that our actions are based on thoughtful decisions is a grand illusion.
The decision making process is a function of consciousness itself; the mind makes choices based on millions of pieces of data, and their correlations and projections, far beyond conscious comprehension, and with enormous rapidity. This is a global function dominated by the energy patterns that the new science of non-linear dynamics terms attractors.

Consciousness automatically chooses what it deems best from moment to moment because that ultimately is the only function of which it is capable. The relative weight and merit given to certain data are determined by a predominant attractor pattern operating in the individual or in a collective group of minds. These patterns can be identified, described, and calibrated; and out of that information arises a totally new understanding of human behavior, history, and the destiny of mankind.