Mimetic Desire Quotes

“The boundary between dreams and reality gets muddy
indeed when we consider the nature of our perceptions. Our senses, those windows to the world, are far from perfect instruments that are extremely susceptible to manipulation and misinterpretation. What we perceive as unquestionably solid and real could be nothing more than smoke and mirrors, projections of our own psyches.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The world brought into being by people through their (installed) belief systems can be manipulated by anyone—or anything—powerful and knowledgeable enough to pull the right emotional strings to produce … the desired beliefs!”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Society’s members are psychically pressured into defining ‘true’ and ‘right’ based not on personal experience or direct gnosis (inner knowing), but on what the creators of social discourse put forward as ‘true’ and ‘right’—in other words, what to believe in—even in the absence of genuine logic or compelling evidence.

This situation leads—almost inevitably, it would seem—to the creation of a certain kind of top-down, pyramidal structure that controls society, culture and, given enough free rein, eventually the world itself.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The world we see ‘out there’ is a reflection of our cleverly molded shared consciousness, our collective belief installed through manipulation of our mimetic desire, not a given ‘thing’ that can’t be changed. This means, as in the adage, that we can heal the world only if we heal ourselves.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“By standing up to our fears, examining our darkness and reassembling our fragmented selves, we undergo a
profound metamorphosis ... provided we’re up to the
challenge of seeing the world for what it is: a product of our own projections that have been manipulated for something else’s benefit.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“As we embark on this challenging yet transformational inner journey, we tap into the quantum self, the infinite potential that resides within. We come to realize that we’re not victims of circumstance, but conscious creators with the power to literally change the world ... or at least our world … by altering our worldview.

Our own reclaimed beliefs—which are more like deep knowings based on direct personal experience instead of mimetic desire—are some of the primary tools that we employ as increasingly conscious architects of our own experience.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Having us lose ourselves in asinine arguments, activities, careers, etc., designed to disconnect us from our deeper spiritual nature and purpose promotes the creation of powerful emotions connected to our thoughts and beliefs. In turn, our own externally elicited emotions help shape and direct the controlled chaos of the world.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The Dragon doesn’t sleep. It doesn’t need to because humanity provides it with a limitless source of energy. The creature’s lidless eye, like Sauron’s, is forever fixed on us, controlling (indeed, mimetically programming us with) our every thought, emotion, and belief—that is, until we awaken ourselves from its spell by going inward on our way out of here.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Used skillfully, silence becomes a shield against negativity and manipulation.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Consider the telling expression ‘pay attention.’ Attention, as I see it, is the original currency. If you look closely enough at this divine sense with your sixth sense, you can actually see its powerful current flowing. And let it be noted that you almost always end up seeing whatever you’re currently paying for.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The fight for freedom, relatively and ultimately speaking, begins and ends with our attention: where we place it and how we use it.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality