supreme consciousness to harmonize with the moral and ethical
standards set by 'God' for humanity (e.g. The Ten Command-
ments). The most relevant of Nature's laws for us are perhaps the
laws of Balance, of Biodiversity, and of Evolution towards higher
consciousness.
On present performance, it is doubtful whether the human com-
munity can remain viable into the twenty-second century; the seeds
of our self-destruction have been sown so widely. I have always felt
that it would take a worldwide disaster to bring about the collapse
of our corrupt systems, which could return decision making to the
place where it really belongs - the local community, in respectful
relationship to its natural environment; which, we must accept, has
happened in the past.
Dr Dorothy Rowe, the distinguished psychologist, said in a
recent interview: 'Ninety-nine percent of suffering isn't caused by
natural disasters; it's caused by the ideas we hold. And if we believe
these ideas are absolute truths, then we suffer and we force other
people to suffer. But if we believe that our ideas are ideas we have
created, then we know we're free to change them.'^5
- VICTOR SCHAUBERGER AND SOCIETY