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%PSYCHIC PORTALS 770909
In our fantasy we often picture time/space portals
via which travel between two different time-places might
be possible. Until such time/space portals are realized
(which is unlikely) we shall have to be satisfied with
psychic portals which are doorways to revolutionary
insights. Revolutionary insights tend to be repressed by
any culture which would be shaken to its foundations by
such insights. Through taboos, collusions, legalism,
traditions, etc. the dominant members who define each
culture are likely to work to prevent passages through
psychic portals to the revolutionary insights which would
transform the culture. Any basic transformation of a
culture is likely to upset power structures---something
un-welcomed by the dominant members of the culture. Thus
anyone seeking to pass through psychic portals may expect
to encounter repressive influence on the part of the
threatened culture.
The person contemplating passage through a psychic
portal must consider the risks entailed. Often return
through the psychic portal is not possible; for the
psychic portal it may be a one-way door because of natural
consequences and/or social decisions. Passage through a
psychic portal may so change the traveler as to make a
return through the portal clearly undesirable.
Passage through psychic portals may entail any of
many forms of meditation such as prayer, Zen, Yogi, T.M.,
etc.; the use of drugs, the reading of a powerful novel,
incongruous experiences, cultural conflict, violations of
taboos, escape from a collusion, new sexual experiences,
participation in an intimate group, exposure to new ideas,
etc. Those who would prevent travel through the portals
are likely to define the associated activities and foci as
perverse, unnatural, evil, wrong, bad, etc. They fear the
incongruity between the world-view they wish to preserve,
and the experiences entailed in passage through the
psychic portal. Thus they tend to repress behavior which
will bring people to the threatening psychic portal. They
do not respect the experimental method as a source of
authority regarding meaningful personal relationships.
They want their slaves' self esteem's to be dependent upon
their traditional world-view.
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