Jean Houston on “Robotery”

In his memoirs, The Candy Maker’s Son (2007), Dr. Kenneth G. Mills wrote: “As Dr. Jean Houston pointed out to me over a decade ago, ‘If people don’t regain the feeling of Soul and bring it to bear upon their life experience, there is no hope for humankind, and the next three hundred years will yield nothing but robotery.’ Robotery is surely present when you see people afraid to respond in an authentic way – to pain or to pleasure, to need or to abundance! The whole world is ripe for change, but those who would be catalysts first have to cognize what the world IS. I look at the world as the evidence of my own creative ability. The only way I can take care of the world is to take care of it within myself.”