It's a catalyst for cognitive activity. That's what the mushroom is dance
drama
song
Painting body
expression
creativity and simply the passive act of
Understanding it. This is what it does for us, and this is what we love to do I mean
We are creatures of the mind. You know they talk about virtual reality as some future technology
That's going to change everything. We've been living in a virtual reality for the past six thousand years
I mean look at cities like New York and London and Los Angeles
I mean the every nature has disappeared everything you see is a human idea
downloaded into material
Existence it's entirely virtual. It doesn't disappear at the punch of a dial, but it is as
Virtual as the virtual realities that will eventually be made out of out of light behind
goggles
Culture the whole thing is that culture and language tend to become traps and
Yet, they can be the platforms
for enormous freedom if
you
understand
What it's all about?
And what it's all about is you?
You are the center of the mandala. You are not
Marginalized in any way and the message that the culture gives us is that we are
Marginal it doesn't matter
whether you if you've got a hundred million dollars that the
Fortune magazine will inform you that so do ten thousand other people on the North American continent
There's nothing special about you. It's and so we are constantly. This is part of the Democratic legacy
We are constantly told you're not special
Special isn't special anybody could do it. What the psychedelic and so then when you look for?
Guidance to affection mentorship we always look toward institutions well
I'll go to the University or I'll go to the army or I'll do something
Somebody will tell me we'll give me a larger purpose, but it's really yourself
that is
The final arbiter, and if you keep yourself as the final arbiter
You will be less susceptible to
infection by cultural illusion now the problem with this is that it makes you feel bad to not be infected by
Cultural illusion because it's called alien nation
you know
But this is ie I can't solve all problems the reason and we feel alienated is because the society is
infantile trivial and stupid so
The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation
I grapple with this because I'm a parent and I think anybody who has children you come to this realization
You know what'll it be?
Alienated cynical intellectual or
slack-jawed half-wit consumer of the horseshit being handed down from on high
There is not much choice in there you see and and we all want our children to be well-adjusted
It's unfortunately. There's nothing to be well-adjusted to
So that's a real problem
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