5. Self-less Man

The Self-less man has achieved a utopia, a paradise on earth where there can be no conflict and where the emotions of guilt and fear are never experienced. Beyond his inner experience, the world may appear like a hell-on-earth, filled with terrorists, wars created by rigid dogmas and doctrines, and the pervasive selfishness of the people of character and personality; however, to the Self-less man, these are just a part of the experience of the moment and this experience can be observed without the conflict, hate, guilt, and fear that overwhelms the lives of the well-defined selves.

The Self-less man has returned to the Garden of Eden the only way that anyone can – by letting go of his Self with its history and promise and its guilt and fears. Man’s place in paradise is where “becoming” has ended and all he has left and all he needs is “being.” See p. 233, Being and the End of History.

“Dissolve me into ecstasies.”
John Milton, Il Penseroso