The Manifest Mind

'What is needed today is a fundamental reexperience of the oneness of all living things.' -Albert Hofmann

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It doesn’t really matter if people like us also do what everyone does and always has done’ – this is the thoughtless prejudice! The thoughtless error! For nothing matters more than that an already mighty, anciently established and irrationally recognized custom should be once more confirmed by a person recognized as rational: it thereby acquires in the eyes of all who come to hear of it the sanction of rationality itself! All respect to your opinions! But little deviant acts are worth more!

Nietzsche, Daybreak (via dianoetic-laughter)

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… for words and language are not just shells into which things are packed for spoken and written intercourse. In the word, in language, things first come to be and are. For this reason, too, the misuse of language in mere idle talk, in slogans and phrases, destroys our genuine relation to things.

Martin Heidegger, 'Introduction to Metaphysics'. Translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. (via indigenousdialogues)

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But to know means to be able to stand in the truth. Truth is the openness of beings. To know is accordingly to be able to stand in the openness of beings, to stand up to it. Merely to have information, however wide-ranging it may be, is not to know. Even if this information is focused on what is practically most important through courses of study and examination requirements, it is not knowledge. Even if this information, cut back to the most compelling needs, is “close to life,” its possession is not knowledge. One who carries such information around with him and has added a few practical tricks to it will still be at a loss and will necessarily bungle in the face of real reality, which is always different from what the philistine understands by closeness to life and closeness to reality. Why? Because he has no knowledge, since to know means ‘to be able to learn.’ Of course, everyday understanding believes that one has knowledge when one needs to learn nothing more, because one has finished learning. No. The only one who knows is the one who understands that he must always learn again, and who above all, on the basis of this understanding, has brought himself to the point where he continually can learn. This is far harder than possessing information.

Martin Heidegger, 'Introduction to Metaphysics'. Translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. (via indigenousdialogues)

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"What psychedelics do, in terms of their physical impact on the brain and organism of human beings, is they withdraw cultural programming: they dissolve cultural assumptions; they lift you out of that crystalline matrix of interlocking truths which are lies. And instead, they throw you into the presence of the great Who-Knows Mystery, the mystery that has been banished from Western thought since the rise of Christianity."

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“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.”

Terence Mckenna (via makethisfeelinglast)

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art … BY TIM ANDERSON

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Proliferation, 2013

acrylic on laser-engraved birch, 36x36 in.

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