Ancient Quote by Stanislav Grof

“Eschatology is one of those doctrines in which interpreters should be careful not to place uncritical confidence in what tradition has said, since it…

— Christopher M. Date

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

— Terence McKenna

“Though we recognize distinct cultural differences across time and place, the commonalities warrant our attention. To think about how these ancient commonalities need to…

— John H. Walton

“The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety. The abuse of it leads to the catechisms, an end to…

— Emil Cioran

“Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural…

— David Graeber, David Wengrow

“When historians and literary scholars talk about the classical heritage, or the legacy to Western civilization from antiquity, they are primarily thinking of four…

— Norman F. Cantor

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

— Terence McKenna

“Culture cannot be a monolithically universal phenomenon without some kind of demonic imposition of one culture over the rest of cultures. Nor is it…

— John D. Zizioulas

“In addition, the Greek division of human life into “mind,” “body,” “emotions,” “psyche,” and “spirit” underlies the modern Western view. The Semitic languages do…

— Neil Douglas-Klotz

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

— Friedrich Nietzsche