Conscious Evolution

Breaking Open the Head:

"Only through an intensive effort of conscious evolution – what he called 'self-remembering' – was it possible for an individual to escape being eaten by the moon. 'The liberation that comes with the growth of mental powers and faculties is liberation from the moon.' He argued that humanity was not truly conscious, that mans’ actions were entirely mechanical: 'Everything ‘happens,’ he cannot ‘do’ anything. He is a machine controlled by accidental shocks from outside.' The influences of the other planets determined wars, revolutions, technological breakthroughs, and environmental catastrophes on the earth’s surface. In his system, social progress is an illusion: 'Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago.'"