Men
generally have believed, or at least not wholly disbelieved, in the existence of spiritual power, but have largely deprived themselves of the advantages of such belief by assuming that this power is not subject to scientific investigation and use.
It
is clear that when one is in a conflict, his need basically is to deal with certain types of thought on the part of himself and the others involved.
The
traveler in equatorial Africa observes droves of zebra and gnu intermingled in friendly familiarity as they graze on the plains and drink from the streams.
Men
have been taught to think of the source and origin of power as something outside themselves, exercised benevolently or malevolently; as something over which they have, if any, only a precarious control.