[Bilko]

Hi Seashore,
Going by your thread alone and the few recordings i have heard from Manly P Hall, i am inclined to agree. The general populace are by and large clueless. I am of course talking about Western civilization here.

I think the more awake you become, the more you realize how asleep everyone else is.

More than that though, i think there is doctrine in place to keep the masses asleep. Television being one.
It was only recently that i discovered the importance of the arts and art as an integral process of awakening the mind through manly P H. I remember not so long ago thinking it was for snobbish people only. A luxury that that only the rich could afford to experience.

As i do my weekly shop or attend any such public activity i do wonder sometimes; how many free thinkers are here? How many of us just go with the flow with what is by and large government sponsored events?

On a daily basis we are distracted by the government albeit unwittingly by the lower echelons. We are all what to do, eat, think etc. Give a child some paper and crayons and you are distracting it by asking it to think for itself. This is art to me, whether it be stacking stones, keeping a journal, or racking gravel, you are waking and tuning your senses.

As i say, i don't know manly's work that well and it is entirely possible that he may have succumbed to the ego or external pressure. however, the little i have heard i have to say, makes sense.