"Something wonderfully
terrifying happens to the mind of a person who dreams of becoming a leader of
men. He starts to go mad, thinking he is discovering reality. Common sense
deserts him and a strange confusing cleverness wells up in its place. He
becomes an authority by giving up his soul to the demon of knowledge and
allowing himself to become corrupted and confused. The common sense he was born
with has been stripped away and replaced by formal education. He is now ready
to pull rank, to confound, confuse and dehumanize other fools”...
We
are all involved in a struggle to become sure of ourselves, to be confident,
to acquire something we call "faith in ourselves” but for all our huffing
and puffing, we forget that we once knew faith and we also forget to ask how it
was that we came to lose it. We have lived with fear and uncertainty all our
lives, so how can we possibly remember when we stepped off the rock of faith
and set ourselves adrift on the sea of knowledge?
On
the other hand, how could we have resisted the temptation to "know"
it all and to be as gods in our ability to unlock the secrets of the universe
through our great knowledge? Was that not the sin of Adam, the original sin, to
which each succeeding generation has given obeisance? Surely, if we were to
show the slightest inclination to rely wholeheartedly on our innate common
sense, the persons closest to us, those supposedly with our interests most at
heart, would soon lower the boom on us, insisting that we stuff our minds with
knowledge and "make something" of ourselves, no matter what the
cost in terms of worry and anxiety.
Now,
as in the beginning, our secret reason for turning our backs on reality and
common sense is our desire to know ourselves as god. The proud ego soon loses touch
with natural promptings from within and begins to rely entirely on words,
thoughts and imagination for its sense of direction and until we are ready to
give up our pride, the "I” or ego-self, will find a false sense of
security and hope in the ever-increasing activity of the mind and only of the
mind. Pride binds us to the futility of trying to know ourselves only through
the process of thinking and imagining.
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