“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank and had midnight swims.”

—	Arundhati Roy

by Eggles

“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

You are something the whole universe is doing, in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
-Alan Watts      

“Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognize your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.”

—	Adi Shankara

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Try to imagine that: working, eating meals, driving the car, and doing everything else with the same sense of cosmic well-being you've felt at the peak of lovemaking. It's not just exquisite pleasure or intense passion. It's actually beyond emotion. It's tranquil, peaceful, serene, without any worries or cares, without attachments to status, fame, wealth, without fear of failure or even death. None of our usual hang-ups and concerns. No anxiety. No past or future. Just pure being, pure consciousness, here and now. And all the while, everything necessary for living goes on. Nothing has changed, yet everything has changed because you no longer relate to reality in the same way. It is a new state of consciousness--not fleeting as in orgasm, but permanent--erotic mysticism.

That would be foreign to our range of experience--even to the whole culture--and we lack the language to describe it well. But we have hints and glimpses of it given to us in the sacred writings of various religious traditions and revered spiritual teachings. Moreover, they tell us there are techniques and disciplines that can be systematically employed to alter consciousness toward that state. Meditation is an example of such a discipline. Yoga is another. So is tantra, which, in some traditions, uses maithuna or ritual sexual intercourse for developing the psychosexual experience to religious heights.

In view of these facts, orthodox psychology ought to drop its illusion of knowing more than these poor, mixed up mystics--whom it labels as cases of infantile regression--and recognize that there are realms of experience about which it is pathetically ignorant.

-John White
Kundalini: Sex, Evolution and Higher Consciousness

“A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive… I can’t bear quarreling, I can’t bear feelings between people — I think hatred is wasted energy, and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive — a sharp word, said by a person, say, who has a temper, if they’re close for me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions, but when all these are removed and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something — I think that’s as happy as I’ll ever want to be.”

-Alfred Hitchcock via Laura :)

I've been to this beach. It's where spirits jump off into the other realms. It's literally at the end of the road in terms of driving around the island.

Napali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii.

thanks terranova for posting

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