Article November 16, 1974 Issue

Signs of the Times

Jerry Kvasnicka

Ontological Thought

Jerry Kvasnicka in Ontological Thought November, 1972 Loveland, Colorado [Reprinted by permission.]

Of the myths that have been accepted by people down through the centuries, few are as ancient and as deeply rooted in human consciousness as the "myth of magic"—the idea that mysterious, supernatural powers exist and can, under certain conditions, produce miraculous effects in man and his environment....

Even the most sophisticated and seemingly self–assured individuals alive today, the finest products of our space age culture, are laboring, consciously or unconsciously, under an enormous inferiority complex, a monumental conviction of their own inherent weakness and insignificance, and are looking with increasing desperation for that magical something—be it computer technology, the "second coming," or world government—to bail them and their human fellows out of the morass of misery that presently engulfs the planet....

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