Feb 21, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb - ”Meaning, Mentors and Masters (or) Seekers, Speakers and Sophists” *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Feb 21, 2007 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)

Low-Speed and High-Speed, Religious Circuit, Modes of Conduct - Behaviour - Culture, Shaping the Thoughts and World View of Followers, Purposes of Religions, Plato's Cave, Reading the Esoteric and Exoteric, "Morals and Dogma", Schools of Thought, Rules and Formula, Unshackling One Chain to Put On Another, Madame Blavatsky, Persona Projections, Composite Characters, "The Cocktail Party" Book by T. S. Eliot, Happiness and Contentment, Discontent - Producer-Consumer, Perception of the World, Child Mortality, Priesthood Supply of Answers - Dogma - Systems, The Group-Collective Mind, Finding Answers for Yourself, Fear of Death, Value of Life, Disconnection with Life and Death, Creating a New View of Life - Society - Humanity - Purpose, Scientific View (Belief System) of Life, Removing Tonsils and Adenoids - Vestigial Scientific View, Sterilization, Devaluation of Human Life, Cynics in Greece - All Institutionalized Religions are Control Mechanisms, Stoics - Rationality - Cutting Out Emotion, Atomists - Groups and Schools - Revolving Particles of Matter, Atomic Theory in Ancient Greece, India - Complete Social Structure - Caste System, Chinese Philosophy of Yin and Yang, Pantheism - Everything Inhabited by a Spirit, Compulsive-Obsessional Behaviour, Appeasing the Spirits - Sacrificial Rituals, Looking Into Yourself for Undesirable Traits, Tinkers - Surviving Separate and Alongside the System - Forced into the System, Gypsies - Horse Trading - Living Outside the System - Disbanding by Government, Immigration and Immigrants - Different Customs, Local and National Laws, Culture Clash, Those Who OWN Your Culture and Nation, That Which You Hate You Become - Becoming the Enemy and the Enemy Is You, Moral Justification, Born Into an All-Encompassing System, "He Who Controls the Past....", George Orwell, Capstone at the Top, Those Who Can Learn Will Listen, Extra-Talking and Endless Repetitive Questions, Understanding is a Process, Religions Promise Shortcuts to Exoteric Masses, Fear of Reprisal or Authority, (Song: "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin, "Moonshadow" by Cat Stevens)