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
Meaningful journeys (Turner)
No meaningful journey is ever quite what you thought it would be when you embarked on it—and it shouldn't be. Your physical departure, in other words, often is accompanied by a psychological and spiritual one as well, leaving you open to revelation, epiphanies large and small, surprise, and the revisitation of the past as offered by your encounters with the new in the present.
Frederick Turner, In the Land of Temple Caves
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