“The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.” FeelsImportantRealSelfIndividualSocietyHigherWorshipEmpathyOppositesBoundariesTendenciesPsychologicalPrimariesUrgesMechanismEntityProjectionIdentificationImportant QuestionsCommunes Author:Arthur Koestler
“The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind” HumansKindIdeasCultureIndividualLanguageUnderstandingImaginationHuman BeingsPlanetsCommunicationMessagesIntuitionBoundariesPsychedelicSynergy Author:Terence McKenna
“The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the advantages of social life, especially in the more advanced forms that we call "civilization" rest on the fact that the individual benefits from more knowledge than he is aware of. It might be said that civilization begins when the individual in the pursuit of his ends can make use of more knowledge than he has himself acquired and when he can transcend the boundaries of his ignorance by profiting from knowledge he does not himself possess.” DoeSaidEndsFactsUseMightFormIndividualSocialUnderstandingIgnoranceCivilizationBenefitsAdvantageProfoundPursuitBoundariesRecognitionSignificanceMaximsSocial LifeMore KnowledgeSocratic Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.” KnowsEndsHardActionTogetherIndividualParentLevelsEffortExpressionMembersIndividualityBoundariesUnconsciousToxicConformDiscouragingUnhealthyFamily MembersFusionThoughts And ActionsWeldingIndividual Expression Author:Susan Forward