Anti-Divine Culture
A culture without the mytheo-spiritual Without the magical Without tradition, meaning, ritual…. Without an identity
In this modern world we have everything but the only think that matters We are so rich, yet so very poor
Our culture is a wasteland
Culture The importance of culture Conditioning and indoctrination People can’t help it, they are born into a culture steeped in ego, illusion, ignorance, separation
Culture is a matrix of collective beliefs, which are programmable.
Cult-ure
Culture is literally a CULT But people don’t recognize it because they are IN IT. They are born in it
Cult-ure Culture is a cult
People are indoctrinated into it and are confined within it
Our modern culture is largely materialist, depraved, ……. It is insane Our modern culture insults the soul, beauty, Truth….
One must exist outside of it or on the fringes You must create your own culture
“Create your own culture… create your own roadshow….” Terrence McKenna
“Culture is not your friend”
“Culture is not your friend”
What is a Cult?
- Cult - ˈkəlt noun, often attributive - A cult is a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control (e.g., isolation from former friends and family, debilitation, use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressures, information management, suspension of individuality or critical judgment, promotion of total dependency on the group and fear of leaving it, etc.) designed to advance the goals of the group’s leaders to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families, or the community.
The Importance of Transcending Culture and Creating One’s Own Culture
McKenna argued that mainstream culture often restricts personal and collective growth. He encouraged individuals to break free from these norms and craft their own subcultures or countercultures. This act, he believed, fosters freedom of expression and allows exploration of alternative philosophies and lifestyles, pushing humanity forward.
”for the sake of being able to communicate and be sustained by the reality you chose to be born into, you begin to accept the belief systems of that reality.” ”in-and-of-itself is not a negative thing; however, because of the way your society has been steeped for many thousands of years in certain limiting and negative belief systems, many of those ideas are still residual within many many of you" - Bashar
Terrence McKenna on Culture
Culture is not your friend_ "Culture is just a cult you don't know you are in". “We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it's worth.” “I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don’t think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium” “Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.” “Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.” “We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.” “Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines. "Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned you might jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know may be wrong.” "What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons. This is something, culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture. Yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines - meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood…" “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.” “Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other peoples’ convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well-treated by culture.” … But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects. It creates consumer mania. It preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.” “You simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead and get with the program of a living world and the imagination.”