Douglas this section of your book was replete with references I’m totally caught up in. I’m was 18 in 1970, the tail edge of the 60s deal. A change of consciousness, “psychonauts” as I’ve heard the term (inner human exploration), inspire me as a path much more likely to progress and sustain us and consciousness in all its forms than accelerating externalized material technological innovations. It seems to me that robotics, mind and mindlessness control, propaganda, surveillance, manipulation, slavery and the death of species spirit and meaning can take a lot of forms.