“Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.” MadeTwoNovelMysteryCivilizationEnglandBritishTeaContributionEmpiresRitualHistorianAfternoonCollapseDetectivesBritish EmpireInvaluableMystery Novels Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished” AgeSchoolCultureGreaterMysteryCivilizationThirdsAncientChineseIndianHumankindTibetanEgyptianAncient EgyptAtlantisEgyptian Civilization Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.” KindChildrenWholeSeemsAblePastMovingHoursImaginationSpaceDestinyMysteryPlanetsBecomingCivilizationCreaturesSpreadDimensionsBiologyOur FutureFourthFinestTime And SpaceOur DestinyAnticipateMetamorphosisHyperSpatialFinest Hour Author:Terence McKenna
“Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!” WayYearsTwoBookFactsCultureReadingGoneMysteryCivilizationOffersThousandMadnessMedicineIllDetailsInsightSolveBrilliantTreatmentEntertainingCompellingThousand YearsBizarreInabilityShrinksDisturbingProvocativeAndrewMentally IllMistreatment Author:Dirk Wittenborn
“It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries--to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.” WorldHumansWellsMayLostGivenQualityCreativeKnowingMysteryCivilizationNotesMusicalDeeperHuman LifeExplorationSpontaneousFittingEpochKnowing And Doing Author:George Leonard
“The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.” WorldHumansFactsHandsVoiceChristianityHeardMysteryCenturyCivilizationAncientCollapseLogosHuman CivilizationRuddersWorld ReligionsAscendancy Author:Terence McKenna
“The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.” MindMeanIdeasOrderConsciousnessMysteryCivilizationDrugRelateComplexitySomething NewRelevantPsychedelic Author:Terence McKenna