Pablo Picasso Facts according to sakri from reddit

* Picasso was the greatest artist of the 20th century.
* Pablo is a mammal.
* Picasso paints ALL the time.
* The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
* Picasso’s work spans many styles from realism to abstraction.

“We need to cultivate a sense of mystery.  The mystery is not only in the Other; it is in us.  This reverberates again with the idea that we become what we behold.  The nature of history is suddenly transforming in the post-quantum physics, postmodern phase;  this was not expected.  The nineteenth century, the early twentieth century – they didn’t realize this was what they were pointed into.  Although some few people, the meta-physicians, the surrealists, saw what was coming.  But now here we are.”
- Terence McKenna – The Archaic Revival

Following Freud comes Jung, who carries it a step further, introduces the notion of a race mind, racial consciousness, archetypes. Working in a slightly different area, people like Picasso journey to Africa and return to Paris with the masks of tribal peoples which then begin to feed into the theories of analytical and synthetic cubism. Simultaneously, the quantum physicists are announcing that the orderly billiard ball world of the Hamiltonian atom has to be replaced with wave mechanical functions of excruciating complexity, then you get, you know, in short order, I don’t know, abstract expressionism, rock and roll, the outbreak of communal lifestyles of the 1960s — you see, I think all of these cultural phenomena can be placed under the umbrella of what I call ‘an archaic revival’. This is what house music is, this is what the psychedelic rebirth is, this is what the new cyber-tribalism is,  and at the center of this the spark-plug, the necessary element, the sine qua non, if you will, is the psychedelic experience, because it’s not an ideology, it’s not something that you get from Baba if you clean up around the ashram for a few years, it doesn’t come to you from some beady-eyed roshi, rishi, geshe, or guru. It’s a direct relationship between you and the plant,  between you and nature, and when you open yourself up to this you discover that this is the secret that was lost and how they keep the lid on this I really haven’t the faintest idea.

- Terence McKenna – Camden Talks 6/15/92

As a culture, we like to laugh at primitive tribes – for example, those who are shown photographs of themselves and cannot recognize them. But Alexander Marshak (in The Roots of Civilization) tells us that in 1876 a French scientist fell by accident into one of the paleolithic caves. Later, in his diary, he wrote that there seemed to be some scribbles on the wall. He could not see that it was art, he was just as blind as the pygmy who is blind to the photograph. Suddenly, a few decades later, people could see it as art. What allowed T. S. Eliot to say that ever since Lascaux, Western art had taken “a tumble down the staircase”? (dégringolade, a lovely word!). What allowed Picasso suddenly to see African masks, the French expressionists to see Japanese art, the hippies in the ’60s to hear Indian music?

For the British colonialists in India, this music was like “the whining of the mosquitoes – how can they stand it?” The Brits could not hear it as music. My parents’ generation could never hear Indian music as music: “What’s that buzzing noise? Are you kids stoned again?” That is what I call a paradigm shift of cognition. At the very moment when entheogenesis – that is, the birth of the Divine Within – reappears in the West, with the late Romantics as a subculture, as ‘occult history,’ the conditions were being set up for this paradigm shift, which we are still basically undergoing. The only thing that could even pretend to suppress this shift of consciousness would be the Law, as in the War on Drugs. But our law is a machine law, a gridwork, clockwork law, and it is obviously unable to contain the fluidity of the organic. That is why the War On Drugs will never ever work. You might as well declare war on every plant, every weed in the ditch. So public discourse is approaching breakdown over the question of consciousness.

- Peter Lamborn Wilson – The Neurospace