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New Man / New Woman

Osho’s vision: “The new man is an absolute necessity… If we cannot produce a new human being, then humanity will disappear from the earth.”

Our beloved master,
I imagined that our tendency to put ourselves down was a product of our conditioning, and something peculiar to modern man. But even in Rinzai’s time it appears that was the chief obstacle to self-realization too.
Can a society of unenlightened people exist only if everybody is made to feel inadequate?

Beloved Osho,
My fear around your vision of the birth of the new man through test-tubes and genetic engineering comes not from the technology itself, but from fear of who might control the technology.

If the whole history of the world were condensed into one year, with us standing at the end of that vast year, it would look something like this: The earth is formed on the first of January. It is only in December that the continents start drifting into their present position. The dinosaurs become extinct