Perhaps you can see why young people are becoming so savage and psychotic, why they are tearing down the schools and turning to dope, crime, sex, and music for relief.

It is because the spirit of education has dehumanized them, and they escape from one familiar spirit to another.

So fixated are they to the seductive education process that when they close their eyes, they find themselves lost in a maze of sounds and images that continue to corrupt them and make them feel guilty even in their own minds. They are drawn to music, back to the original sounds that spawned them. 

Intuitive children, not being so hell-bent and achieve­ment-oriented, cause those who have accepted the system (especially teachers and parents) to feel threatened. That is what makes them apply the subtle seductive pressures to which the young are inherently vulnerable.

The pressure to learn and make something of yourself, while compatible with the ambition of some, is incompat­ible with the likes of you and me. We feel conflict under such pressure because we are obliged to develop in a manner that is contrary to our will and ultimate destiny.

The conflict we feel is insufferable, but it is what makes us seek, and them achieve and escape. They may escape so well that they do not even notice a problem—although there are many.

Because there is a Light beckoning to us, we have an increas­ing awareness of the hell consuming us from the depths of our flesh. This awareness is a good working in our souls. 

There is a distinct relationship between “fact-fondling” and failing. The more ambitious you are, the more you are attracted to the dangling carrot of knowledge. Now begins the process of your downfall.

"The process of becoming a 'success' is nothing more than a prideful, stubborn addiction to failing"

Acquiring skills and talents is perverted to become a prideful compensation for failure; you deteriorate from holding noble, godly aspirations to the mere acquisition of the means to lord it over others. 

The foulest types are raised up on pedestals because of the “talents” they have developed—like rock music enter­tainers. People worship compensations and overlook obvi­ous character flaws.

You can fail in life and yet be worshiped for your so-called accomplishments. The more ambitious you are, the less human you become and the more you will ex­cite the world with your achievements. 

You must lose yourself endlessly in the process of compensation, chasing success and worldly approval in order to stay ahead of guilt. You are forced to set bigger and bigger goals to excite and evolve your pride away from understanding.

You are egged on by the applause of other budding egos; you are the model they need. You will tempt compulsively, the way the need of a male tempts a woman to tempt him. All tragedy is but a variation on the original theme of the failing in paradise.

The process of becoming a “success” is nothing more than a prideful, stubborn addiction to failing. Our convo­luted thinking makes us see it as a rising to greatness. Stop for a moment to see just what ambition is.

It is an agony and ecstasy leading to a greater agonizing need to set even higher goals of escape and achievement and study to stay ahead of a pursuing reality. Fascination with achievement, education, women, music is a “romance” with death as though it were life.