The 'yoga of the cell' leads to 'true matter' and eventually the victory over death. A collective transformation sufficient to create a new species on earth is needed.
This year, all the features of the yoga of the cells become clear: "A growing conviction that a perfection achieved in matter is a far more perfect perfection than any other. The consciousness expressed in transformed cells is a marvel: it legitimises all these ages of misery. Oh, what a fuss all those gods make." This year marks the discovery of "true matter".... without fuss: "In that cellular limpidity, there are no more problems: the solution precedes the problem. That is, things arrange themselves automatically." It's another mode of life on earth - "such a natural way of being" - in a body freed from its mental shackles and the laws of false matter: "The extraordinary impression of the unreality of suffering the unreality of illness.... It does not cure illness: it annuls it - it makes it unreal.... And then you see: as the functioning gradually grows perfect, it necessarily, inevitably means victory over death." And meanwhile, Surveyor is digging the ground of the moon with its mechanical arms, while our own secrets remain buried in a little cell: "We can travel anywhere, we know what's going on anywhere.... and we don't know what's going on inside ourselves." War is raging in Biafra, the Israeli troops are marching toward Suez, American planes are bombing Haiphong, China explodes its first thermonuclear bomb.... and so on. "A tremendous conflict over earth." At stake is a new earth, or a return to the old fiasco: "A local and momentary manifestation is not ruled out, but what is needed is a collective transformation sufficient to create a new species on earth.... This fact is certain." Will we understand where the real way out is, and the Marvel concealed in a human body?
Yesterday evening, I received a big file from Y. on "prenatal education".... She says that during the first months of its life, the child needs to touch its mother's skin, and that this (Mother shows the photo of a naked Negress carrying her naked child on her back) is the ideal way to carry children!?
I read it yesterday, because she had spoken so much of this prenatal education, saying the child is fully educated by the age of three, so I wanted to know what she proposed. But there isn't a single thing in it, she doesn't say what should be done.
Just at the last page.
Yes, there is something there.
The Child of the Future He has never met with a burst of impatience. He has never heard an angry voice. He has never seen anyone lamenting. He has never heard said "me" or "mine." Nothing has ever pulled him out of oneness. No one has ever told him, "Come!" or violated his physical rights. No one has ever told him, "You must!" and violated his psychic rights. He has always been treated as a soul in evolution. The universe is his mother and the future his school.
The Child of the Future
He has never met with a burst of impatience. He has never heard an angry voice. He has never seen anyone lamenting. He has never heard said "me" or "mine." Nothing has ever pulled him out of oneness. No one has ever told him, "Come!" or violated his physical rights. No one has ever told him, "You must!" and violated his psychic rights. He has always been treated as a soul in evolution. The universe is his mother and the future his school.
A child to whom you must never say, "Come".... That's not easy in the language if you can't tell him, "Come"!
No one ever tells him, "You must."
Ah, yes, that's fine.
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Where is she going to find parents to do that!
Yes, it's the parents who should be educated!
Yes, to begin with.
Just in this last page there is a hint of what that education might be, but it's the negative side, what must not be. That's all. But the positive side isn't there.
She had already spoken to me once about prenatal education, so I thought it must have some meaning, but here ...
Of course, we know from experience you can give the form that you imagine; in the broad lines, you can give the character you imagine; all that is quite correct. So to begin with, it's the mother who should be educated, not the child. Then, through a very strict control of your own reactions, you can prevent certain wrong impulses from mixing into the child's making. But all that isn't new, it's been known for a long time since it's what I practiced when I was expecting a child. So I know it.
But once again, it's the mother who must be educated, before she has a child, that's what matters.
As for me, I understood that you could already give the child ideas, aspirations, tendencies (I didn't know how that was possible), but she doesn't say anything leading to that.
There's only one thing, she says somewhere that during the first few weeks, for the child the separation is painful, and so the physical contact is necessary—the touch—the contact with the skin to give the child the taste of life and the understanding of physical life.1 That's possible. But nowadays doctors say, "The last thing you should do is touch your child—put it in a cradle. You should not touch it because that will deform it." It runs quite counter to her theories. Of course,
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she may be right to a certain extent, it's possible. But anyway, it's a very small detail, it's nothing. I expected a lot and have been somewhat disappointed.
But what this Burmese man has said is fine—that's much more interesting: this idea that it's high time human nature changed. That's good. Because in ordinary life, ordinary people tell you, "I can't help it, that's the way I am!" It's the answer you always get.
(silence)
To do things properly, we would need a small "educational booklet" for the children of the future. A "preconceptional booklet" to prepare the father and mother (especially the mother, that's the most important). Then a booklet for the first three years of life: the qualities required, the attitude to be taken.... At any rate, the father and mother should first know the possibility (at least the possibility) of a child being more than a mere animal man.
Then, conception should take place entirely outside of desire. That's another very difficult condition to be fulfilled.
And the mother, throughout the gestation, should be in an atmosphere absolutely protected from all degrading influences: an ideally beautiful place, a wonderful climate where everything is harmonious, and a wholly spontaneous, free and harmonious and beautiful life sheltered from all vulgarities of life. And the mother herself should have the ideal of the new child. It should be done not as a mechanical but as a conscious, willed thing in an absolutely "creative" atmosphere, we might say.
All these are very difficult conditions to fulfil.2
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