Perhaps our modern day wonders and machines of human ingenuity and resourcefulness, our so-called "great outer technological advances," are what have lessened our dependence on our native, inner technology of accessing our psychic mind's abilities and powers. The evidence of human history and experience would make it seem so. The advent of our higher technologies and more creature comforts have not only softened and lessened the hardship of physical existence, they have softened and lessened our psychic minds as well. No longer do we have to psychically sense where danger might be lurking in the world around us, we have CNN and radios and cellphones to tell us. While our species might appear, at least collectively and on the surface, to be better off because of all these technological advances, it seems our individual lives, that is, as singular entities trying to make sense out of our existence, purpose, and destiny, have suffered a great loss of part of our cosmic identity in this technological transformation from ancient intuitive and psychic man to modern and technologically-oriented man. Somehow, we do not seem as whole and complete as we possibly once were, not as fully equipped to survive not only our personal inner turmoils, but even our outer turmoils as well as. our psychically developed predecessors did. We were designed to develop in two symbiotic directions, an intuitive as well as a technological, not one as we have obviously and unfortunately done.

Most of humanity would not now suspect it, given the pseudo-spiritual patina our society has veneered itself with, but unless we once again, as a species, "en mass," begin to re-access and develop these psycho-spiritual tendencies, abilities, as a part of our daily life and existence, not superficially, as now we practice our religions, but earnestly as part of our human identity, then we run the risk of expediting our own extinction as surely and certainly as if we had pressed a button unleashing our own obliteration. It would certainly be a slow and miserable death, perhaps taking place over thousands of years, an extinction accompanied by a spiritual and psychic deprivation and emptiness that even our current most spiritually devoid members could not envision.

Even from a less destitute observation, one thing is for sure, we have grown somewhat mentally lazy and certainly use less and less of our mind and inner faculties than did our prehistoric fore-bearers. One could argue that, quite literally, parts of our brain and mind have been taken over and replaced by our machines, nearly to the point of atrophy in many of our members: Consider how television has usurped the imagination of children.

I'm sure that almost everyone, at one time or another, has heard the familiar statement that "people only use ten per cent of their brain capacity," which is just another way of restating the evolutionary problem; though, most people assume this statement to mean that the great majority of us only use ten percent of our intelligence. Now, while the truth of the lessening of our intelligence can be substantiated easily by anyone willing to invest just a little time in finding some out of the way, obscure place at almost any mall, just to sit and watch for awhile how most humans behave in public, still we are left with nagging, unanswered questions: "Where is the other ninety-percent?" and "What does that ninety-percent consist of?"

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