¶ Metabilical Cord (1)
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We are at the point of completely unexpected events of humanity. We have human beings being born absolutely helpless physically. And they are not self-sufficient for physical life support until the umbilical cord is severed. But metaphysically they are still dependent on the parents for survival. The mind has to develop all its experience of generalized principles like the lever to achieve the independence of mind over muscle. When the child in the womb leaves off the umbilical cord it means the completion of the development of his physical independence. But as long as the parents did the metaphysical life support for the infant they were the news. They were the metabolic.
The same kind of thing has happened now on a world-around basis. The radi and the television are presenting a new kind of voice program in everybody’s language. And the young world-- all of humanity-- is changing from its dependence on the parents, the old world of muscle-over-mind. And what is changing is that the authority is changing. The authority used to be the parents and the notion of might-over-right and now the new authority is this universal radio-television voice programs which herald a sort of metaphysical cord comparable to the umbilical cord. It is what I call the metabilical cord: and
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA by telephone from Phila, PA, 10 Jun’74
