“It could be said that our mental reign, or even our Animal reign on the whole, is the
indirect reign, the reign of machinery, from the shrew gnawing a liana with its teeth
to a physicist smashing the atom in a cyclotron. Countless mechanisms, increasingly
complicated, from vibratile cilia, wings and fins, to the turbojet and the telex. A
colossal artifice. Somewhat as if evolution, that is to say a certain power (and we
cannot speak of power without consciousness, albeit the consciousness of the
hydrogen nucleus snatching its unique electron), a certain power has cloaked itself
with increasingly adapted and ingenious mechanisms or organs, to finally reach this
evolutionary point, this turning point of epochs, when the mechanism becomes aware
of the engine, and after having divided itself countlessly in countless bodies,
rediscovers the total unity of its intracellular or galactic substance and can act directly
on its substance, its nuclei, its cells, as on universal matter. After the mineral,
vegetable and animal reign: the next, direct reign. A reorganization of Matter by the
very power of Matter in every cell. But we had to reach that point, at that cellular and
atomic level, instead of melting into celestial or nirvanic expanses; we had to break
the barrier that separates us from the next “milieu”, the total milieu or our next,
global species, as one day the mineral broke the barrier of its inertia. What was there
at the beginning of evolution is found again at the end: the power rediscovers its power,
and unconsciousness its buried consciousness.

…A new physiological position in Matter. No longer a philosophical position with its
so-called materialisms and spiritualisms, which are only the obverse and reverse of the
same false vision of Matter, but a position of the body, in the body, which will change
all the laws of the old “frame of reference”.

…But this discovery, which does not look like much, is quite stupendous. It is as if, we
were looking for keys right and left, in chromosomes, molecules and penicillin and all
the holy kit and caboodle of our science which codifies the walls of the prison – and
suddenly, it is nothing but a code of our own walled-up hypnotism. “You know, walls
are made up of ten billion atoms per DNA molecule and there are a million billion
billion atoms per twenty cubic centimeters of matter–as many as there are grains of
sand in all the oceans in the world–and twenty different types of amino acids and five
types of nucleotides, and how are you going to get out of that?” But then…it is
nothing but the phantasmagorical fabric of our own material mentality: that is not
where the obstacle lies, that is not even the wall. The wall is what we think it is.
Illness is what we think it is. Death is what we think it is. And all the “laws” of the
species are what it thinks they are. A mind in matter.

Then we understand that we can get out of it.
...“Salvation is physical” said Mother, who at the age of eighty, dared to knock at the
body’s last door, and who made the most tremendous discovery since Darwin.”

From 'Mind of Cells’ by Satprem. English translation Copyright Institut de Recherches Evolutives, France, 2010.