Charles Manson Infant Consciousness
“Charles Manson advocated a compelling mystical philosophy based on the central belief that an infant's consciousness represents the pinnacle of existence.”
This, however, is mistaken. The purpose of life is to attain self-mastery by understanding the motivations behind one's actions—this is the alchemical transformation.
In the end, it is about learning to live beyond the ego, beyond the psychic realm, beyond the animal instinct, and to exist at a somatic level—that is, at the level of the physical body.
The hippie movement and its Boomer generation willingly deluded themselves with this intellectual premise: that the mind can be more powerful than the body. It is not.
The boomers never fully integrated into society and therefore constantly romanticized it. They romanticized an infant consciousness—a state of pre-linguistic, pre-social, impulsive being. That state does not exist. They rejected the hard-earned achievements of maturity: reason, ethics, and an integrated self. Hence the permanent adolescent behavior of that generation.
The “Hippie/Boomer” movement represents a critical flaw in the belief that merely changing one's mind, through psychedelics, philosophy, or sheer will, will change your life. It does not.
Somatic Control Precedes Mental Control: learn the mind and you will control the whole body.
This is the Same Esoteric Science, reiterated for millennia across all cultures, because human is fundamentally the same.