Some of the Most Powerful of J.L. Moreno

[Edward Schreiber]

I am preparing for some presentations around the issue of sociatry  
and came across a document written by Dr. Moreno called "The Future  
of Man's World".  I love this facet of Moreno's writing and work and  
want to share it with you.  These are excerpts I'm using in my work.
Best,
Ed

The Future of Man’s World

JL Moreno


The problem is: will the self, as it learns to expand, gain in  
mastery or control of the section of the universe which it invades,  
or will it be pushed back and forth as in the past by events beyond  
its control.   Sociatry has given us good reason to predict that  
human society will eventually be controlled by the spontaneously  
directed self or selves.

Experimental heredity gives increased assurance that the genetic  
evolution of the human species will become one day submissive to  
control and guidance. But methods of control and guidance of events  
on the cosmic plane are still (and may be forever) shrouded in mystery.

The greatest difficulty in the expansion of the self toward actual  
mastery of the universe is not in the invention of instruments by  
which these ends can be attained but in Man himself. He is inept and  
inert, his spontaneity is in an embryonic stage of development…..the  
lag is rather in Man’s limitations and unreadiness for using  
instruments and methods to master his biological, social and cultural  
challenges…

The answer to this difficulty is not easily given; Man needs to be  
educated; but education means here more than mere intellectual  
enlightenment, it isn’t an emotional enlightenment; it isn’t a matter  
of insight only, it is rather a matter of the deficiency of  
spontaneity to use the available intelligence and to mobilize his  
enlightened emotions. But such a program of preparedness requires an  
effort without precedent, the training and retraining of men on a  
world-wide scale along spontaneity lines, it requires action research  
and action methods continuously modified and sharpened to meet new  
inner and outer environments.

There is no question that Man has to trace his steps back from the  
secular to the sacred planes of living, from the technological back  
to the spiritual plane, in order that the growing expansion of the  
self can find an inner equilibrium; it is a paradox, but the  
realization methods of the saint and the technological methods of the  
physicist, the two extremes – in between fall the realization methods  
of biometrists, psychometrists, sociometrists, etc., - must meet and  
merge before the dawn of hope can rise again.

But the expansion of the self from the plane of the individual  
organism to the cosmic plane of ruler of the universe cannot be  
imagined to be a process of cold engineering.  It will be a  
realization process of, by and through the self, a movement from the  
lower plane to the superior plane, the time for each movement  
equaling that of historical epoch.

No one can predict for instance, how much time and effort it will  
take until the social self on the plane of human society will have  
attained as high a degree of integration as the degree of integration  
such as has been attained by the most highly regarded single human  
individuals of history.  Every new step in self realization and self  
expansion will amount to a total revolution if the situation of Man  
on a more superior plane is compared with his situation on a more  
inferior plane. The I-Self-God process has obviously no relation to  
the idea of the Man-god and similar and similar anthropomorphic  
allusions.  We are not concerned with the godlikeness of a single  
individual but, to use a religious simile, with the godlikeness of  
the total universe, its self integration.



When man found himself failing in his struggle for maximum creativity  
he divided from his will to create his will to power – and now his  
will to have power turns against his will to create.

  
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