"When you're watching a science fiction show on television or at the movie
house, and you see the creeping monsters and the horrible things from
another world or from the underworld of some kind, when you see these
horrid creatures you like the entertainment thrill but it doesn't really
bother you.
In the first place you're safe on your couch and there they are on the TV
screen; and on a deeper look at it, you also feel safe wrongly because you
say, that's science fiction, no one could be that bad. No band of
marauders, pouncing down on the colony on another planet in trying to
destroy them, that has to be science fiction, can't be real. And that's how
human beings stay asleep - because it is real.
Science fiction itself being a very, very good way to illustrate and show
and reveal what human beings are really like. So while the horrors are
there, all the murderous intentions, all the evilers that you see in the
form of monsters, misshapen perhaps and the different forms and fiery, all
those are merely models, examples, replicas of sick human beings. For every
monster you see on the screen, there's one in life and with that much
variety in them.
So now, we're not talking about science fiction any more, about something
you see on your screen tomorrow; we're talking about this very real,
physical world, with millions of men and women of all ages, talking about
this world that they have created. And you know what kind of a world
they've created because you live in it and you're afraid of it. You're not
quite sure what to do about it.
Now, we're going to select one monster, one eviler, one sicko, one psycho,
and we're going to take a very close look at it, right now. And don't you
dare think that I'm talking about an exception. If you do, you'll make a
mistake as a listener to this talk. And I’m not going to tell you about an
exception; I'm telling you what is very commonplace, what is very familiar
if you could see the familiarity of it. If you could see people when they
are all alone in their home and they don't know anyone's hearing or
watching.
All right, let's describe a human monster. His hell is his Heaven. See,
that's what he is, a fiery, malicious nature, therefore that's what he
enjoys. He enjoys himself and himself only. His hatred is his love. Now
just think about it - his hatred is what he loves, he likes to look at
people and subtly figure out how he's going to drag them into his kingdom.
I'm giving you, now you listen to me, I am giving away the secrets of hell
itself tonight. Now don't you push them away, saying it's improbable or
unlikely or you'll do the very thing that the dark forces want you to do,
to say that that's too much, it isn't that bad.
Now why would any human being object to hearing about hellish human nature?
Because he's protecting and hiding it in himself and that's the only
reason."
from a talk given 5/30/1986 V H's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 4, talk 81, track 2
