Most people are excessively personal - they brood too much on their ills and their worries and resentments. When this happens, the vision becomes narrow. I have elsewhere suggested a convenient term for this narrowness: mono-consciousness. p. 740 - 741
... there is something wrong with human beings... all human beings are suffering permanently from a kind of spiritual head cold, and they are not aware of it.
We have a deeply ingrained habit of passivity which is more dangerous than cigarette smoking or drugs. ...Because it produces an inner condition of boredom and stagnation that makes us long for crisis, for excitement, and which explains, for example, the steady rise in the crime rate... p. 749
This chemical serotonin seems to have a great deal to so with evolution of species. The primates, men and apes, have more serotonin than any other species, far more. p. 752 - 755
So far... all that we really know is that minute quantities of serotonin affect mental states, alter perceptions, and that new dimensions of conventional reality accompany changes in the level of serotonin in the brain, ...serotonin is crucial to rational thought. p. 752 - 755
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