Another Choice

Our world

Today respect appears to have deserted most of us: we sell and consume image and flesh, we are held in a leash.

Attracted, magnetized, sucked, dazzled and seduced by the multiplication of the objects and the signs of a virtual comfort and enjoyment, our physical consciousness is altered and colonized. Or else we are seized with rage and indignation and would destroy all, nearly willing to join these obscure fundamentalisms which also dip into the same self-exhibiting vertigo: everything has become a show and a representation. Yet informatics and the technologies that serve them and the ones that are presently developing have begun to concretize a new threshold on the way of conscious Unity, at once in making immediately accessible to the individuals all knowledge, all research, and all the human approaches and endeavors, and in exposing all of us, neutralizing distances and erasing borders, to an ubiquity and simultaneity of causes and effects that are only increasing. We are no longer very far from the moment when the one who undergoes torture in a cellar in Colombia and the one who savors an ice cone on a Singapore terrace will consciously share a single question and a single call – towards the next condition. And we can already, here and there and more and more, shoulder one another and freely share openly any information that has proven relevant and useful to the progress of physical consciousness and thus hasten – and hasten we must – the possibility of terrestrial harmony.

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Perhaps one may individually attain to another degree of engagement: a certain unification is accomplished, a certain liberation from ignorance and attachment, a certain receptivity to the flow of the consciousness-force and a certain harmonizing of our particular circumstances.

But the time of the body has gone on – this body which is still subject to the erosion of the years.

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