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My Concern is with People
My name is Mike Wolfe. I've been In the radio and television business
in Washington D.C., Denver, Colorado
so I've traveled a bit and got tired of the big cities and came to central Oregon.
My concern is with people and their growth.
The city is their concern,
not my concern.
And I have
so many intelligent people here:
architects, engineers, doctors, professors
from all the professions
daring,
adventurous people have come to me,
now it is up to them. A mundane affair, I don’t care about it.
I trust them: they will be able to manage.
And they are managing.
And they will be able to develop it
technologically,
but it is not my concern at all.
What is your concern?
My concern is their spiritual growth.
Their
intelligence should come to its highest peak.
They should be deprogrammed from all that is past,
rotten and dead,
meaningless and harmful.
My work
is not to create the city
but to create the man,
and then the man will take care of the city and the houses.
That is a totally different matter,
I don’t bother about it.
But my basic concern is the individual. The individual is to me the highest value in life.
And all the religions of the world have repressed the individual,
they have all made him feel guilty,
they have all made him somehow
think himself
unworthy,
a sinner.
All the religions, in different ways,
have forced
everybody
into a corner
where he is no more human.
They have humiliated humanity.
It was
their vested interest:
they needed
a world of slaves, not a world of rebels.
And you can make a person
shrink
if you make him guilty.
You can make him
afraid
of hell,
you can make him greedy for heaven,
and this way you can make him
completely forget
this moment,
this life.
All the religions have been trying;
either
they are focusing you on the past,
or they are focusing you on
the future, beyond death.
No religion
bothers
that you should be alive,
laughing, living, loving, flowering
here and now
and that’s my purpose.
Do you think that they do this because they are big business
and that is the way to control people?
It is a great conspiracy between the politicians and the priests;
it has been
for thousands of years.
The conspiracy is
that the politician
rules people
as far as
worldly things are concerned,
and the priest
rules people
as far as their psychology,
their mind, their soul, are concerned.
And they have
enslaved man in every possible way
the politician
from the outside
and the priest from the inside
they have destroyed
all potential
of human beings.
My work is to bring that potential
back,
make the person aware
that he is not guilty.
If Adam
and Eve
disobeyed God that is their business.
You cannot be guilty for Adam and Eve disobeying God.
This is so stupid!
In the first place,
disobedience is not always bad.
And as far as Adam and Eve’s disobedience is concerned,
it was certainly beneficial to humanity.
In fact God was the enemy,
because he was prohibiting
Adam and Eve from eating
from the tree of knowledge
and
the tree of eternal life.
Now, who is the enemy?
Wisdom,
knowledge,
science
all that
we value in life
paintings, poetry, sculpture,
nothing would have happened
if Adam and Eve had not disobeyed.
They would have still been naked animals
in the garden of Eden,
chewing grass!
My God, I hope that…
I can’t picture all of us in this room chewing grass!
You cannot picture
it because of Adam and Eve.
You should feel grateful to Adam and Eve!
I do now!
Yes!
You know, psychologists tell us all of our problems are directed back to our mother, but now you’re taking it so far back I can’t even comprehend it!
They take
all the problems to the mother
and they forget the real father.
That is male chauvinistic psychology.
The whole psychology is created by man,
just as all the religions are created by man.
The woman
is condemned by the religions,
and she is condemned
now by the psychologists.
In fact the psychologist is slowly taking the place of the priest,
because the priest is
becoming out of date.
Younger generations are no longer interested in the priest;
they have seen
five thousand years of human history,
what these priests have done.
The younger generation is more interested
in psychotherapy,
in psychoanalysis,
in other
different methods
of psychic
exploration.
The priest
is no longer
in the powerful position that he has always been.
So you will be surprised that all the priests in the world are now studying psychology,
to become psychotherapists.
It is going to become
a necessary qualification for every bishop,
every priest,
to have some degree of psychology, psychotherapy,
psychoanalysis
because they are aware that
their power is slipping by
and the psychologists
are replacing them.
He is becoming the new priest.
But the trouble is,
the new priest is also
is also serving the old vested interest;
he is not revolutionary
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