CYCLE EIGHT: THE COMING CHALLENGE

1. Nothingness cannot become somethingness, but nothingness can certainly replace and/or supersede somethingness as the hegemonic factor of the age, which, unfortunately, was the actuality of twentieth-century life.

2. Thus instead of a male hegemony, the twentieth century provided us with ample evidence of a female hegemony which, despite liberal claims to the effect of equality or equalitarianism, has since become the hegemonic factor of our time - a time in which the negativity of nothingness has effectively superseded the positivity of somethingness, as secular values have increasingly gained the upper-hand over religious ones.

3. In the twentieth century, and to a lesser extent in the preceding two centuries, the Devil did indeed 'ride out', albeit in terms of the supersession of religion by science, of subjectivity by objectivity, and the ever-more hegemonic entrenchment, in consequence, of female nothingness at the expense of male somethingness.

4. The vacuum of the cathode-ray tube was a fitting paradigm for the entrenchment of secular over religious values in the twentieth century, and provided ample evidence of the triumph of nothingness for the dissemination, through light, of evil, as in the ubiquitous portrayal, in one way or another, of violence.

5. The challenge for the twenty-first century and beyond will be to restore, on a superior basis, the hegemony of somethingness over nothingness, in order that religious values may once again prevail over secular ones, in keeping with a desire on the part of males for genuine spirituality.

6. The old, or Christian, spirituality was fundamentally fraudulent, centred not in mind but in ego, not in God/Heaven but in man/earth (not to mention also rooted through the Mother in woman/purgatory and through the Father in the Devil/Hell), and was therefore vulnerable to and duly eclipsed by secular supersession.

7. The new, or Superchristian, spirituality will be centred in mind, the inner metaphysical self, and will utilize the will and the spirit, the power and the glory, of ultimate God and Heaven to achieve both the liberation and glorification of the self in question.

8. Even when and where this is not literally applicable, there will be a deference towards inner metaphysical idealism from the inner physical and chemical positions of a 'new naturalism' and a 'new realism' below, in what, in other texts, I have described as the bottom two tiers of our (projected) triadic Beyond.

9. Not only is mind higher than ego, but mind is that which is superconscious through the spirit rather than simply conscious through the intellect.

10. Breath stands to the lungs as thoughts to the brain, and both alike are mediated over by their respective selves, viz. the superconscious self of metaphysical mind and the conscious self of physical mind.

11. Just as intellect is the thought the egocentric self thinks, so spirit is the air the psychocentric self breathes. More correctly, breath becomes spirit once the mind is superconsciously attuned to it; for it is the spirit which is the beatific glorifier of mind, and which elevates the mind that is specifically attuned to breathing ... to the metaphysical heights of superconscious being, making it spiritually conscious, or joyfully aware, of itself as not merely an existential but an experiential being - One with the Holy Spirit of Heaven.

12. The process of specifically attuning oneself or, rather, one's metaphysical self, the superconscious mind, to the breath ... is called transcendental meditation, and TM is that which allows the mind to become more fully aware of itself through spirit, as that which is one with the breath and of universal import, in consequence of the omnipresent proximity of the air that is breathed into it via the lungs.

13. In fact, it is this metaphysical self which breathes the spirit of air via the lungs, which are but a means to its spiritual glorification.

14. Thus the lungs do not breathe independently of the metaphysical self, as though on their own account, but are servants of the metaphysical self which requires lungs in order that it may reap the superconscious benefits of breathing, in terms of spiritual awareness (joy).

15. Even when one is not specifically attuned, as superman, to the breath, it is still the metaphysical self which is responsible for the breathing process, since the lungs are not an end-in-itself but a means to a superior end - the joyful fulfilment, in short, of the mind.

16. All transcendental meditation does is enable one, as superman, to experience mind more fully and thus achieve superconscious liberation (salvation) from conscious and/or unconscious alternatives for the purposes of spiritual fulfilment.

17. In meditating, one achieves maximum mind and thus maximum consciousness (superconsciousness) of the spirit (joy) which pertains to the breath and is one with all spirit. One ceases to be personal (egocentric) and becomes universal (psychocentric), since that which derives, as spirit, from the breath, returns, as breath, to the air.