patterns. Undoubtedly, most of them also deal with that portion which attracts this personal self (like attracts like), which is but a fraction of the whole. PREMISE: THE EXISTENCE OF A CONTRADICTION. We share with animals and all living things a common prime command, going back to the moment of conception. It supersedes any other instinct The command indelibly etched in our being is: SURVIVE! It was this dynamic that created the fear barrier, which had to be overcome before willful separation could take place. For an out-of-the-body experience was very much like death, which might be called the ultimate failure to comply with the command. To satisfy the survival drive, we eat. We often eat compulsively because it is one way to respond to the prime command when threatened with something other than starvation, We translate the command into the accumulation and defense of material possessions. The drive to reproduce answers the command in another manner. Any danger to the ego calls forth the automatic mechanisms of defense or denial. The familiar fighter-flee is the physical reaction to the survival imprint. Survival as the prime command means avoidance of death by whatever method available. The contradiction is that the principal idealistic notions of man, the noble virtues, the great acts, all have as their base the denial and/or rejection of this prime command. The man who gives to another his bread, who provides for his family at the cost of early death, who gives of himself to community and country without direct benefit, who deliberately endangers and possibly sacrifices his life for others, has done the Right Tiling. Therefore, doing the Right Thing, the human act most respected, the most godlike by our standards, is in direct violation of God's prime command to all nature. Moreover, to compound the contradiction, it is impossible to achieve the Second State without subjugation and/or subordination of the survival drive in its most basic forms. DNA, somehow you have the wires crossed. From these fundamentals, a thousand secondary premises come to the surface like bubbles rising from the primordial mass below the organic rubble on the ocean floor. Through layer upon layer of sedimentary misconception, they seep upward into light. Is it better to burn the evidence, to ignore it? Or, with all of the existing potentials, to try to widen the doorway?