"The cutting edge"

It may sound like a good thing, to be on the cutting edge of consciousness. Not so. Oh, it is an honor of sorts, exciting, even intoxicating. But it is an incredible amount of hard work. And it is dangerous. To put it bluntly, it should never be attempted by anyone with a family history of psychosis, even if they feel fine themselves at the start. The problem is the lack of "support lines" with the larger society. This has two drawbacks:  You don't get feedback from people who see things differenly (or rather their views no longer matter, them being so primitive). And they don't "get" you either. Suddenly you are no longer the cutting edge, but an iron filing whirling toward the magnetic attraction of the "Omega point", while the sword is left behind unmoving and unmoved.

What is sorely needed are those who bridge or bind, those who can move the world just an inch forward rather than leave it behind. But who can carry the weight of the world? Mainstream religion had saints or bodhisattvas, who stood up for the world in the face of the blinding light of the Divine. But who today is willing to go back and wear chains to pull on the world, when they could soar away unbound?