Cosmic Ṁ

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one’s best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one’s own will and one’s own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development. When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall.

— Carl Gustav Jung

Cosmic Power यन्त्र: yantra—Instrument; equipment; Machine

The word ‘self’ is as great a mystery as the word ‘other’. It’s just a polarity between two mysteries.

— Terence McKenna

The ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviours are acceptable.

— Terence McKenna

Cosmicity

We seldom realize,  for example,  that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but were given to us by our society.  We copy emotional reactions from our parents,  learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses.

Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules.

— Alan Watts