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RE: The Secret of Life: Who You Are Doesn't End Where The Edge of Your Skin Ends
It feels like we're getting close to the return to nature by the technological advancements in information sharing. When all we see are commercials for drugs to keep us sick we have no choice but to believe in their false cures. Because we can now choose the information we take in, we have a choice to return within and let the subconscious do the work it was meant for. We can stop medicating the life out of ourselves and work together to achieve total mind, body and spiritual harmony
I think so too, Terence Mckenna once said this " We have gone very, very sick. And the body politic, like any body, when it feels itself to be sick, it begins to produce antibodies, or strategies for overcoming the condition of dis-ease. And the 20th century is an enormous effort at self-healing.
Phenomena as diverse as surrealism, body piercing, psychedelic drug use, sexual permissiveness, jazz, experimental dance, rave culture, tattooing, the list is endless. What do all these things have in common? They represent various styles of rejection of linear values. The society is trying to cure itself by an archaic revival, by a reversion to archaic values. So when I see people manifesting sexual ambiguity, or scarifying themselves, or showing a lot of flesh, or dancing to syncopated music, or getting loaded, or violating ordinary canons of sexual behavior, I applaud all of this; because it’s an impulse to return to what is felt by the body – what is authentic, what is archaic – and when you tease apart these archaic impulses, at the very center of all these impulses is the desire to return to a world of magical empowerment of feeling." I agree with it and I think your statement is along the same lines