However, although we keep repeating the same stories about how man wants to rule over all and by all since our oldest days, and no matter that my chief mode is the future - because I write mostly in the spirit of science fiction, I have to turn to a darkness greater still, one that sometimes takes hold outside all, or any sort of, well-meaning laws, and that is the darkness of the mind...

In short, not always thinking with one's own head, the more dangerous shifts in the aims and intentions of the conscious mind in our age are hard to clear up even with the psychological commentary of recognised scientists. There are sacrifices of the mind's stability, a surrender towards the complete uncertainty of what ought to be done during a chaotic revolt of phantasmic forms. That must be strictly forbidden! And so the characters of the novel evidently do not exist as a quick or acceptable way of giving such warnings.

In better books, science fiction is not their measure here, because for every intention and anyone's purpose it “is not usable”! Besides, only a mad or a besotted man 'weighs up' the passage from the Sidpa state into the Chönyid state, and likewise a deliberately induced psychotic state in kundalini Yoga, which in unstable individuals can lead to an actual psychosis, is one more danger that must, by accident or on purpose, be taken very seriously. Today's society avoids the cold compresses which say that fevers do not make a man a man...

This novel is not based on forbidding or on defending the columns above; instead, in an instructive way, it explains something else entirely, and that is our real – Earthly progress.