It also gives us a cause to rebel against. On Mar 7, 3:57 am, iam deheretic <[email protected]> wrote: > I tend to agree culture is not our frien, yet it gives us the foundation > from which we need to examine our lives. > Allan > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Molly <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Culture is not your friend, no matter what your culture is. And this > > is sort of not a Politically Correct thing to say, because in the > > present ambience, (sort of, those who haven't gotten the word) there's > > a lot of attention to recovering our ethnic roots and to expressing > > our unique ethnicity, and so forth and so on -- I think that's the > > beginning of understanding. But all terms that stress ethnicity are > > words applied to groups of people. Have you ever noticed that? Have > > you ever noticed that you're not a group of people, you're a person? > > So you may be "Jewish", you may be "Black", you may be this, you may > > be that but there is no obligation to take upon yourself the > > generalized quality of these things, because the generalized qualities > > belong to thousands of people examined at a time. If you misunderstand > > that you become a caricature. You act out your ethnicity as a > > caricature. > > > So culture is not your friend, ideology is not your friend... Who's > > your friend? Well, to my mind, the felt presence of immediate > > experience is the surest dimension, the surest guide that you can > > possibly have. The felt presence of immediate experience. Feeling is > > primary. All rationalization and intellectualization and analysis is > > secondary, and comes out of culture. No matter what your culture is, > > it has answers. Cultures thinks up answers. So a child asks its mother > > a question, like, "Where do we go when we die?" or, "Why does Daddy go > > to work?" Cultural answers are always provided, but nobody knows the > > real answers to these questions -- that's outside of culture. So > > coming to terms and fully expressing your culture is like a stage in > > development. And then beyond that lies the aspiration of the felt > > presence of immediate experience, and its implications. It's a very > > hard thing to deal with and to do when you are poisoned with ideology. > > And ideologies are very difficult to deconstruct and rid yourself of > > through a simple talking therapy of some sort, through simply trying > > to work it out. The best antidote for ideology is to raise the > > intensity of the felt presence of experience to such excruciating > > levels that it simply vaporizes ideological illusion. And this is what > > psychedelics are for, I think. And it also explains (if you've ever > > wondered) the incredible phobia of these things on the part of the > > establishment, the incredibly deep alarm that these things trigger in > > people" - Terence McKenna > > >http://www.salvia-divinorum-scotland.co.uk/quotes/mckenna/cultureisno... > > > What do you think? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > ""Minds Eye"" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<minds-eye%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en. > > -- > ( > ) > I_D Allan- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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