something dies something lives

                                                   
                                                    
 In December of 2007 Peter Chamberlin posted
"The planned collapse of America"
.....  In it he           
mentions The Aquarian Conspiracy, a book 
authored by Marilyn Ferguson, a book I own 
a copy of.  On page 99, down the margin is a
long wavy line in green ink.  Two paragraphs:
                                               
    On an individual level, we discover
  a self that does not compete.  It is        
  as curious as a child, delighted with     
  testing its changing powers.  And it is          
  fiercely autonomous.  It seeks self-    
  knowledge, not gain, knowing it will           
  never probe its own furthest reaches.         
  As one recovered alcoholic put it, "The        
  only person I need to be is myself.  I          
  can be really good at that.  In fact,   
  I can never fail if I am simply me and     
  let you be you."                           
    Redefining the self defuses competi-        
  tion.  "The joy of this quest is not    
  in triumph over others," Theodore         
  Roszak said, "but in the search for         
  the qualities we share with them and        
  for our uniqueness, which raises us    
  above all competition."                          
                                                      
On page 397 she writes:                              
                                                
    In new-paradigm relationships,          
  the emphasis is not so much on           
  sexuality as intimacy.                       
                                              
Her book's subtitle is: Personal and Social           
Transformation in the 1980s.  This might         
lead one to assume The Aquarian Conspiracy     
was a look back at that decade.  It is not.           
The copyright, which is in her name, shows              
1980.  Published by L. P. Tarcher, Inc.,             
Los Angeles, California, and simultaneously     
in Canada by Thomas Nelson & Sons Limited,
Don Mills, Ontario, and Distributed by St.      
Martin's Press, New York, it is a forward-     
looking book of over 400 pages.  The first     
sentence in the Introduction:             
                                                 
  In the early 1970s, while researching a          
  book about the brain and consciousness,              
  I was deeply impressed by scientific findings          
  demonstrating human capacities well        
  beyond our idea of "the norm."               
                                               
The beginning:                                  
Chapter 1 The Conspiracy                     
                                                 
     After the final no there comes a yes     
And on that yes the future of the world depends.
                             —Wallace Stevens
                                                 
  A leaderless but powerful network is           
working to bring about radical change               
in the United States.  Its members have               
broken with certain key elements of          
Western thought, and they may even have          
broken continuity with history.          
  This network is the Aquarian Conspiracy.             
                                                 
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So from her book.  Since then what?          
                                              
At this moment we are in the midst of a         
possible planet-encompassing economic     
disaster.  At this moment we are also          
in the midst of accelerating beneficial      
changes.  As much as I am interested in     
the future, I am not a predictor of it.  I     
do, however, along with many, believe we     
must get beyond reliance on fossil fuels.      
We are, as Michio Kaku says, a Type 0          
civilization striving to become a Type 1
civilization.  For the survival of our    
species, it is imperative we succeed in   
realizing that transformation.  It may   
be, due to a force incomprehensible to          
us, that transformation is inevitable.    
I cannot say.                              
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