Yes. You had me at McKenna. I am actively exploring on my Substack the necessity of ritual in creative endeavors. It's a lot to contend with but worth the mental and emotional freedom it allows to create and experience things beyond my grasp to put down in words sometimes!
Thanks for sharing this! Oddly though it is a bit of a conundrum isn’t it? Don’t watch TV or read magazines … but aren’t a lot of us writing for magazines and TV? Who will read our work or watch our endeavors? It takes all kinds I guess.
I agree with McKenna and have long advocated for this solution. Most modern issues—politics, health, dating, social structures—stem from culture. Shaping a positive culture directly addresses the root of the problem.
I think he was talking about sovereignty of mind.
Creating your own culture isn’t just aesthetic rebellion, it’s psychological deprogramming.
In a world optimizing us into algorithms, weirdness is a form of liberation.
Thanks for this reminder.
Yes. You had me at McKenna. I am actively exploring on my Substack the necessity of ritual in creative endeavors. It's a lot to contend with but worth the mental and emotional freedom it allows to create and experience things beyond my grasp to put down in words sometimes!
Thanks for sharing this! Oddly though it is a bit of a conundrum isn’t it? Don’t watch TV or read magazines … but aren’t a lot of us writing for magazines and TV? Who will read our work or watch our endeavors? It takes all kinds I guess.
I agree with McKenna and have long advocated for this solution. Most modern issues—politics, health, dating, social structures—stem from culture. Shaping a positive culture directly addresses the root of the problem.