Consciousness Quote by Terence McKenna Download Open image “Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.” — Terence McKenna ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consciousness Culture Expansion Philosophy of Mind Plot
“Consciousness - what we call our identity- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which… — Rosalind Minsky Copy Share Image
“Yet a period’s character does affect individual character. Psychology, the study of what happens in our minds, is tightly interwoven with culture, the name we give to our beliefs, practices, and social behaviors. The scholar Andrew Delbanco goes so far as to define culture as a collective psychological notion. “Human beings need to organize the inchoate sensations amid which we… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share
“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation. In the… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
“Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
“It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“People and situations always show us what we need to see and learn about ourselves, and when we take responsibility for our own feelings,… — Eliza Mada Dalian Copy Share Image
With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai… — Dylan Gelulla Copy Share Image
