Be careful, Man...

"...This Society has no centers of power and possesses no type of organization in the terrestrial sense of the term, because, although individuals do exist in some physical, yet exotic, form, there is no such thing as "individual consciousness."

Each individual "participant" (it's an ugly expression, but it's the most appropriate in this context) of this Civilization exists only as a "part of a whole"; as a portion — necessary, but not indispensable — of a "greater body" to which he or she accedes and with which he or she merges and vanishes.

I do not know whether this type of psychological and social architecture is original or whether it — somehow — derived from a series of previous "organizational experiments."

I do not know whether it is a "choice" or a "necessity."

What I do know is that this Civilization has existed for at least twenty billion Earth years, and its "consciousness," if I may call it that, extends to the edges of this Universe.

Maybe even others."

Dr. Paolo C. Fienga