Month: January 2013

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, then you are disempowered, you’re 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 and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, 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 want to even 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.

 Terence McKenna, quote on consumerism  (via untilasinglesolitonsurvives)

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 100. CARL SAGAN: Pale blue dot

Or, from another perspective, according to quantum physics none of this even exists until we perceive it. We have looked out and found nothing in the void, yet we have created pyramids, and computers, and the rockets that make it possible to explore the void. We have created gods and they have become real because we made them so. Cherish your fellow humans because they are your fellow gods and goddesses. Cherish the Earth because it is your home, and the cradle of the magnificent human race. 

Be in awe of the stars and the majesty they reveal, but realize that in the end, they can only reflect back what is inside you. The inward journey is just as important as the outward. We are not dust. We are the stars themselves.