Transformation is as natural as a child learning to walk, and all that is needed is to clear the path to it, and our process consists of getting rid of all the psychological baggage which blocks the path - plus the baggage which is put there by an uncomprehending society that insists that it's all nonsense. Like the child learning to walk in a community where everyone goes around on all fours, and anyone who feels it normal to adopt the bipedal posture is seen at best as someone who thinks too highly of themselves and at worst as someone in need of highly invasive treatment.

Whether an individual is helped by a visionary leader is up to him/her, but the gurus which are revered by the society gives an important indication as to where the society is with regard to transformation. So whatever you may think of them as individuals it is better to have Wayne Dyer, James Redfield and Deepak Chopra as million-selling gurus rather than Napoleon Hill and N.Vincent Peale.

As for peak experiences, these at best give us a vision through the "chink in the door" of how things might be like further along the path (for this reason Ken Wilber renames them punningly "peek experiences), but this does not transport us instantly to that far point, we still have to make the journey at our own, natural pace. They point the way, just as the vision of the Grail pointed the way to Arthur's knights - without that they would have not had the same impetus to pursue their path.

As a species we _will_ go forward, the transformation _will_ come because this is part of the natural order of things, and every little affirmation or other process helps. We are all beings of Light and will return to this Light.

4 February 2000

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