pain

• an inevitability

3:5.149. Is plea­sure—the sat­is­fac­tion of hap­pi­ness—de­sir­able? Then must man live in a world where the al­ter­na­tive of pain and the like­li­hood of suf­fer­ing are ever-pres­ent ex­pe­ri­en­tial pos­si­bil­i­ties.

• none on Paradise

27:1.5The last rest of time has been en­joyed; the last tran­si­tion sleep has been ex­pe­ri­enced; now you awake to life ev­er­last­ing on the shores of the eter­nal abode. “And there shall be no more sleep. The pres­ence of God and his Son are be­fore you, and you are eter­nally his ser­vants; you have seen his face, and his name is your spirit. There shall be no night there; and they need no light of the sun, for the Great Source and Cen­ter gives them light; they shall live for­ever and ever. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nei­ther sor­row nor cry­ing, nei­ther shall there be any more pain, for the for­mer things have passed away.”

• Andonites not so sensitive to

63:4.2The tribal life of the an­i­mal an­ces­tors of these early men had fore­shad­owed the be­gin­nings of nu­mer­ous so­cial con­ven­tions, and with the ex­pand­ing emo­tions and aug­mented brain pow­ers of these be­ings, there was an im­me­di­ate de­vel­op­ment in so­cial or­ga­ni­za­tion and a new di­vi­sion of clan la­bor. They were ex­ceed­ingly im­i­ta­tive, but the play in­stinct was only slightly de­vel­oped, and the sense of hu­mor was al­most en­tirely ab­sent. Prim­i­tive man smiled oc­ca­sion­ally, but he never in­dulged in hearty laugh­ter. Hu­mor was the legacy of the later Adamic race. These early hu­man be­ings were not so sen­si­tive to pain nor so re­ac­tive to un­pleas­ant sit­u­a­tions as were many of the later evolv­ing mor­tals. Child­birth was not a painful or dis­tress­ing or­deal to Fonta and her im­me­di­ate progeny.

• Life Carriers’ healing technique affords relief from

65:4.6Since life was es­tab­lished on Uran­tia, the Life Car­ri­ers have im­proved this heal­ing tech­nique as it has been in­tro­duced on an­other Sa­ta­nia world, in that it af­fords more pain re­lief and ex­er­cises bet­ter con­trol over the pro­lif­er­a­tion ca­pac­ity of the as­so­ci­ated nor­mal cells.

• all tribal reactions grew out of effort to avoid

68:4.2It must be borne in mind that the mores orig­i­nated in an ef­fort to ad­just group liv­ing to the con­di­tions of mass ex­is­tence; the mores were man’s first so­cial in­sti­tu­tion. And all of these tribal re­ac­tions grew out of the ef­fort to avoid pain and hu­mil­i­a­tion while at the same time seek­ing to en­joy plea­sure and power. The ori­gin of folk­ways, like the ori­gin of lan­guages, is al­ways un­con­scious and un­in­ten­tional and there­fore al­ways shrouded in mys­tery.

• essential to progressive evolution

86:2.1Anx­i­ety was a nat­u­ral state of the sav­age mind. When men and women fall vic­tims to ex­ces­sive anx­i­ety, they are sim­ply re­vert­ing to the nat­u­ral es­tate of their far-dis­tant an­ces­tors; and when anx­i­ety be­comes ac­tu­ally painful, it in­hibits ac­tiv­ity and un­fail­ingly in­sti­tutes evo­lu­tion­ary changes and bi­o­logic adap­ta­tions. Pain and suf­fer­ing are es­sen­tial to pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion.

• heat relieves

90:4.6Since wa­ter was a po­tent fe­tish, it was uti­lized in the treat­ment of many ail­ments. For long it was be­lieved that the spirit caus­ing the sick­ness could be elim­i­nated by sweat­ing. Va­por baths were highly re­garded; nat­u­ral hot springs soon blos­somed as prim­i­tive health re­sorts. Early man dis­cov­ered that heat would re­lieve pain; he used sun­light, fresh an­i­mal or­gans, hot clay, and hot stones, and many of these meth­ods are still em­ployed. Rhythm was prac­ticed in an ef­fort to in­flu­ence the spir­its; the tom-toms were uni­ver­sal.