Eugene begins by drawing a circle to represent the skin surface of a human being. At the centre he draws a small circle to represent “the unassailable, impregnable” Immanent Spirit. “The power there is so great no stimulus from outside can enter into it.” A stimulus comes to a new baby and consciousness runs out to meet it and makes a record. This process is repeated endlessly and the records build up until they almost completely block the left side of the brain. Central to all is the child’s name. The right side of the brain is kept for intelligent new discoveries.
At some point, early on, a message goes out from centre, to attack the source of external stimuli, usually the mother. (He marks it with an Andrews cross.) Afterwards, there may be a period of identification with this rebellious zone. The person may become a political revolutionary, determined to smash existing society and replace it with a new kind of social structure. Later still, comes another phase, when the attacker becomes depressed because it cannot defeat society. This is the ‘drop-out’ phase. This means dropping out of the social system, usually in the late teens. “It wanders about, it goes to Stonehenge at Midsummer, it goes to Findhorn.” This being is on the path to salvation. He now believes in the possibility of a saviour, and, together with his drop-out friends, he is looking to find a ‘Messiah’. A real one would, of course, tell him to go back into society and learn to assimilate it. He won’t want to hear this. He would rather meditate on a mountain top than be in the city, so he looks for a guru. “Now this is only the idea of a messiah, but it is a true idea, it is the idea of the Logos.” A true messiah would say to the drop-out, “Don’t drop out, go back in and you will have your daily cross…Everybody you meet will crucify you in one way or another.”
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