Genesis P-Orridge > Quotes

“Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.”
― Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

“And when in doubt, be extreme.”
― Genesis P-Orridge

“I'll never give up being into trying to change the world.”
― Genesis P-Orridge

“I say, ‘We believe in a Christ’. If that being existed physically or not, it’s still important, because the message was so basic and sensible and powerful, that we should live by those truths. Love, compassion, generosity. God doesn’t punish anyone. Churches aren’t needed. Money in connection to belief is an abomination. They say, ‘Oh…’. Then they quote the Old Testament.”
― Genesis P-Orridge

“Thee Temple is a church of only LEADERS, no followers. A radical step. Even thee Nazis, though they bred an elite of leaders, still wanted to control thee masses, lead them and entangle themselves with them. We want thee leaders alone. Fuck thee sleeping masses. We have no desire to be superior rulers of boring, dull masses of people who we despise. We want JUST leaders. A church full of leaders, only leaders and not leading anyone. Merely co- habiting. A separate existence for OUR satisfaction. Why waste all that time, energy and vision dealing with boring masses of people. We’ve got better things to do. Enjoying and stimulating ourselves. A self-centered religion instead of a crippling, selfless Christian ideal.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Thee Psychick Bible: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Third Mind ov Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

“When order is lost, time spits.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Esoterrorist: Selected Essays 1980-1988

“Books are ports of entry to perceiving the experience of life differently, and that’s as powerful as it gets—that’s alchemy.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“We have to think of something new in order to wake people up. Because at the moment people have become so blasé. How do you get through this miasma of complacency and make people listen? How do we break through it and slap people’s faces—metaphorically—and say, “The world’s collapsing around you, and all you’re worried about is how many ‘likes’ you’ve got on your social media accounts. For fuck’s sake, wake up!”
We used to think we were a romantic existentialist. But after all the incredible evidence we’ve witnessed in different shamanic traditions worldwide, we’ve had to adjust our perceptions. Now we are happy to be a compassionate utopian idealist. The potential of humanity is infinite. And the choices we make as a species could be either our downfall or our celebration.
That’s what we think about now: What’s next?
There is definitely a parallel between what was happening at the end of the 1970s and what is happening now. People need to be slapped awake … but that’s not our job anymore. All of you who are reading this: you’re supposed to be changing this. You must. “Because what happens in the future is a direct result of what you do and don’t do right now.
There’s always a way. You don’t need resources. You don’t need money. You just need to have an idea that’s strong enough, and that you feel strongly enough about, that you will go against everybody else to say or to put into practice.
Please go out and try to change the fucking world.
End gender.
Break sex.
Short-circuit control.”

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― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“Nothing is forgotten, all is permitted. In a stinking cave, muttering babies scream and scratch, furs undulate in copulation. In one corner, bright-eyed first marks are daubed on a wall. They are marks to function, marks of place, of time. They are marks to draw results and persist beyond one human lifetime. Instinct has arisen, snake-like, coiling itself into intuition and suggesting the very power of suggestion. No one noted down from a book this process, it grew from watching the elements, closeness to life-sources, death-forces that modern persons are divorced from. On this damp stone there is a curve, it is land, horizon, ejaculation, movement.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult

“There were people who had an inkling; they knew there was something else going on. They'd seen the light in the crack around the door. They knew there was something else in that other room, and they were curious, but they'd been told to be afraid of what they didn't know, what they weren't familiar with. They were wary. They needed someone to say, 'Hey, it's fine.' Someone to open that door. That was my job. To open the door wide and pull people through.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“In order to do something that seems new, you have to strip away everything that's traditional, take away all the things that give it its formula or its identity. You have to get everything that's normal and break it. And even then you still are at the mercy of having grown up thinking of music a particular way, and that's where the cut-up process came in, because you could then break your own perceptions and actually end up with new comprehensions that you would otherwise not have.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“We are a species frozen in stasis, yet within us all, if we sacrifice our SELF, there is, in potentia, a path forward where we are all perfecting. Perfecting because to believe that we are already perfected human beings—immutable, inert, complete—would mean out road as a species is over. 'Moonchild' said that all must be constantly in flux, a chaos of possibilities and impossibilities.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“If everything is an illusion, then our senses are sacred. Touching is sacred.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“Changing names is a really potent form of magic. It’s a technique for shedding a nostalgic connection to bloodlines and familial responsibility.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“The universe is made up of one kind of matter—everything. There is no binary universe. So there is no binary body. It's a myth. We need to erase difference, embrace the idea of similarity, and recognize that similarity is not a weakening at all but a strengthening.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one’s particular life path might appear to one’s self or others at any given moment.”
― Genesis P-Orridge