http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/ ... es-of-man/
About the idea that a new religious movement might be in the process of being created: Back in 1973, the U.S. government comissioned a report from SRI International entitled Changing Images of Man. This report concluded that the spread of so-called “new values”- spiritual and ecological awareness and self-realization movements - had become unstoppable.They also predicted that if left unchecked this would bring about a transformation of society that would undermine ‘modern industrial-state culture and institutions’ and result in ’serious social disruptions, economic decline, runaway inflation, and even institutional collapse’. The report anticipates a lessening of trust in authority and a reaction against a regimented, tightly controlled society. In order to prevent this “worst case scenario”, SRI recommended identifying existing institutions or traditions that could be used to control and contain the impetus of the new movement - in other words, they recommended that the government infiltrate and co-opt the movement for meaningful spiritual/ethical re-definition and social change (Freemasonry was suggested as a particularly useful vehicle for this co-option).
So if a new science-based religion is in the making, something approved by the voice of Official Authority, something safe, neutered, materialistic, perhaps it is a part of a bigger plan. There is no question, that if you look at where we were 35-40 years ago, where we appeared to be going with all this, something has gone off-track. All the progressive possibility that seemed to be opening up in the wake of ’60’s new thought… this kind of thought hasn’t exactly disappeared, but it certainly hasn’t had much of a revolutionary effect either, the new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss, only with better public relations. What was supposed to be unstoppable has been confined to the fringes, and the Great Powerful Machine has kept rolling right along. It’s interesting to me that we hear about the Brookings Report all the time, in discussions of possible UFO secrecy, but the SRI report is never mentioned and seems to be almost completely unknown, even though its potential applicability covers a lot more territory, and even though SRI is very well known among alternative knowledge communities because of it’s CIA-sponsored remote viewing experiments. It makes you wonder if there aren’t some gatekeepers at work here, carrying out their assignments with a high degree of efficiency.
See how the above makes sense when you finish reading it? See how it leaves you feeling you gained some data, rather than just feelings about things?
The full title seems to be: “Societal Consequences of Changing Images of Man” and I’ve seen notes that Joseph Campbell was one of the authors of it. I’ve also not found anything that would suggest this report advocated infiltrating or subverting mystical groups. But then, information on it is very slim…
Here’s a conspiracy-slanted article about the SRI (Stanford Research Institute) on Rense which mentions the Changing Images of Man report, but neglects to give any useful info. I also keep seeing mention of a book called The Aquarian Conspiracy which allegedly put the SRI agenda into the public stream.
Nathan Says:
June 27th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
So I visit Rigorous Intuition this morning, and he’s talking about Scientology, and he mentions, among other things, how well represented Scientologists were in SRI’s remote viewing experiments! Synchronicity strikes again. Perhaps we are hearing so much about Scientology right now because someone has decided it’s a better candidate for use and control in the current climate than Freemasonry, which might be seen as being a little old fashioned…?
My familiarity with the report comes from a brief discussion of it in the book The Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. That’s really a fun book, it’s full of stuff about how the work of various writers and researchers in alternative knowledge fields, like Richard Hoagland, Whitley Streiber, Graham Hancock, etc., is really being secretly sponsored by the covert forces that are supposedly trying to supress it. The lead author of the report, futurist Willis Harman, was the founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, they have plenty of samples of his work at the Institute’s website, he also wrote a couple books detailing his thoughts about where things were heading. Harman himself clearly saw the coming shift in consciousness as a positive thing, although he apparently felt in needed to be “managed” in order to avoid destructive effects.
