Jane Roberts says that Maslow’s hierarchy <br />of needs should give the need for meaning <br />priority; desire for meaning is more essential <br />than satisfaction of basic needs like shelter <br />and food – I agree; modern man is living proof <br />that enhanced living conditions and unlimited <br />supplies of food have not solved depression <br />or dissatisfaction, consumption of anti-depressants <br />and tranquillizers in highly developed countries <br />is on the increase - because man’s basic need <br />for meaning has not been addressed, each <br />little person must create meaning for himself <br />or blindly accept what religions and science preach – <br />when the wild world assails me, bombarding <br />us with bad news and sad predictions for a <br />new millennium – I turn to esoteric literature, <br />studying ancient American Codex and Maurice <br />Cotterel’s Astrogenetic theories; accounts of <br />the Philadelphia Experiment – because mainstream <br />science compresses reality into the smallest <br />entity of depression impossible to imagine <br />without going totally insane – and I did…<br /><br />Margaret Alice<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/philosophy-science-compresses-reality/