deliberate attempt to expand consciousness

If evolution is now being carried on through human history, at immense acceleration and through the expansion of consciousness, then we might probably expect that through there would be progress, it would be confined to the very few, would break out at unexpected times and from unsuspected sources.

.. the only way to make deliberate attempt to expand consciousness, is to abandon the old life altogether and to attempt to build up a way of living in which the expansion of consciousness, the deliberate, intentional, experimental attempt to forward psychological evolution becomes the one purpose and aim binding together the social group.

-gerald heard

should never underestimate the power of the mind. this is what's inside our head. ridiculous. all of that brain! tissue, blood, cells.. all composing somehow these thoughts that are in my mind..