5. It has opened the door to study and experimentation in
extrasensory perception--man's "sixth" sense.

6. It has made possible an unprecedented increase in the
human population of the planet.

7. It has raised its potential for destruction far above and
beyond its potential for production and construction.

8. It has brought together, classified and indexed the ideas,
materials, techniques and generalizations which made possible
this study of civilization, its appearances, disappearances
and reappearances.

9. Europeans have carried the burdens of western civilization
and inherited its disintegrative consequences for so long a
period that the fate of western civilization and the fate
of present day Europe are closely interwoven.
Western civilization seems to have reached and passed the
zenith of its lifecycle without achieving the political integration,
the stability or the unified authority attained by the Romans and
the Egyptians at the high points in their lifecycles.




CHAPTER FIVE

FEATURES COMMON TO CIVILIZATIONS