“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit - to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent cooperation with nature. We do not need a new religion or a new bible. We need a new experience, a new feeling of what it is to be 'I'. Our normal sensation of self is a hoax, or, at best, a temporary role that we are playing, or have been conned into playing - with our own tacit consent, just as every hypnotized person is basically willing to be hypnotized. The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of our apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego." ~ Alan Watts 
*Huichol Indians at Te-akata, birthplace of the God of Fire, near Santa Catarina, Jalisco, Mexico, 1895 * ~ photo by Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922 )
*Huichol Indians at Te-akata, birthplace of the God of Fire, near Santa Catarina, Jalisco, Mexico, 1895 * ~ photo by Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922 )
Yer seeming want to correct the self at large is a direct threat to natural evolution. The selfish work to end the pain caused by hun ger and want because it hurts you is commendable however but if you eliminate the want of the world you eliminate the quest for the golden whattaucallit.When you crush want you crush advance. That,s called stagnation and it leads to fossileization, I bet,.