Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:38 pm
Reclaim Your Mind by Terence Mckenna Catalysts to say what has never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language. And whats really important is, I call it, the felt presence of direct experience. Which is a fancy term which just simply means we have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time, where you are now, is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, you are disempowered. You are giving it all away to icons. Icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion. And what is real is you and your friends, your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, and your fears. And we are told no. We're unimportant, we're peripheral, get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Where is that at?
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LSD is a psychedelic substance that causes psychotic behavior in people who have not taken it! (UNKOWN)
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world, you see. (Terence Mckenna)
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. And that beliefs should be put aside, and that a psychedelic society would abandon belief systems [in favor of] direct experience and this is, I think much, of the problem of the modern dilemma, is that direct experience has been discounted and in its place all kind of belief systems have been erected... If you believe something, you're automatically precluded from believing in the opposite, which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of this belief.
(BY TERENCE MCKENNA)
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance
(Aristotle)
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Søren Kierkegaard:
Once you label me you negate me.
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
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Alex Grey
in a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized
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(Unkown)
we do not possess imagination enough to sense what we are missing
"Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach."
-Brian Eno
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LSD is a psychedelic substance that causes psychotic behavior in people who have not taken it! (UNKOWN)
°°°°
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world, you see. (Terence Mckenna)
°°°°
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. And that beliefs should be put aside, and that a psychedelic society would abandon belief systems [in favor of] direct experience and this is, I think much, of the problem of the modern dilemma, is that direct experience has been discounted and in its place all kind of belief systems have been erected... If you believe something, you're automatically precluded from believing in the opposite, which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of this belief.
(BY TERENCE MCKENNA)
°°°°
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance
(Aristotle)
°°°°
Søren Kierkegaard:
Once you label me you negate me.
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
°°°°
Alex Grey
in a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized
°°°°
(Unkown)
we do not possess imagination enough to sense what we are missing
"Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach."
-Brian Eno
