Creativity Quote by Dave Davies

Davies is doing a very late-60s move in one compact breath: distancing himself from inherited, Western, rule-bound religion without abandoning the hunger that religion names. The phrasing is careful. "Touches many aspects" signals openness, a refusal to be pinned to one creed; it also reads like a defensive posture against the rock-star caricature of the zealot or the dilettante. He’s not converting, he’s curating.

The real tell is "mainly". It’s a pivot from buffet-style spirituality to a declared center of gravity: "the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism". Not "Hinduism" or "Buddhism" as institutions, but mysticism as vibe and practice, stripped of denomination. That choice flatters an artist’s self-image: mysticism promises direct experience, altered perception, private authority. It’s spirituality that behaves like songwriting - intuitive, personal, resistant to gatekeepers.

Calling it "the future" is where the cultural moment snaps into focus. This is rock culture at the point where therapy-speak, meditation, psychedelia, and postwar disillusionment start forming a new moral aesthetic. The West is framed as exhausted; the East becomes shorthand for depth, calm, and a more humane technology of the self. There’s subtextual optimism here, but also appropriation-by-abstraction: the "yogi" becomes a symbol, not a person embedded in history, politics, and tradition.

Davies isn’t predicting theology so much as forecasting taste: a coming market for spiritual tools over religious membership, inner experience over public doctrine. He’s naming the shift before it had an app store.