CENTRIST EVOLUTION

As appearance gives way to essence

In the overall evolution of human life,

So must Social Transcendentalism eventually

Be superseded by Super-transcendentalism,

In order that the second and higher phase

Of Centrist civilization may come to pass

And bring Centrism to maturity,

Through the purest meditation,

In the ripe wisdom of a beingful essence.

This meditation of the noumenal self upon itself

Will supersede contemplation of the other in the self,

Pure transcendentalism superseding

The impure transcendentalism of the hallucinogenic trip,

Just as, in the Christian West, puritanical Protestantism

Superseded visionary Catholicism

In the evolution of Christianity

From appearance to essence, doing to being.

Phases cannot be escaped, and if the second phase

Of Centrism must wait until the first phase

Has properly run its course, then so be it!