I've always had a passion for art and the Liberal Sciences of Grammar, Geometry, Arithmetic, Logic, Rhetoric, Astronomy, and Music.
"Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mold-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final." - Hunter S. Thompson
"I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation." - Albert Hoffman, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD
"In old times, and also in our time among the Indian tribes, psychedelic substances were considered sacred and they were used with the right attitude and in a ritual and spiritual context. And what a difference if we compare it with the careless and irresponsible use of LSD in the streets and in the discotheques of New York City and everywhere in the West. It is a tragic misunderstanding of the nature and the meaning of these kinds of substances." - Albert Hoffman
"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself." - H.L. Mencken
"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself." – Helena Blavatsky
"Living in the world without insight into hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born." - Hazat Inayat Khan
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind." - H. P. Blavatsky
"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck." - Immanuel Kant
"Religion...in its widest meaning, is that which binds not only all men, but also all beings and all things in the entire Universe into one grand whole...unity of everything in the universe implies and justifies our belief in the existence of a knowledge at once scientific, philosophical and religious, showing the necessity and actuality of the connection of man and all things in the universe with each other; which knowledge, therefore, becomes essentially RELIGION, and must be called in its integrity and universality by the distinctive name of WISDOM-RELIGION." - H.P. Blavatsky
"Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason." - Erich Fromm
"This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves." - Robert G. Ingersoll, "An Interview on Chief Justice Comegys", Brooklyn Eagle, 1881
"The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know." - Robert Ingersoll, "Orthodoxy", 1884
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"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." - Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, Trial of Galileo in 1615
"If the owl of Sophia had been as wise as she, it would not have sat in her presence so spellbound." - Hazat Inayat Khan
"Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect." - Sigmund Freud
"I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice.... I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity." — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
"All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence. the former — of the corruption of the will." — Alexander Herzen
"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." - Sigmund Freud
Müzik
Psytrance, Goa Trance, Goa Gil, NIN, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Pixies, Primus, Oingo Boingo, John Lennon, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Midnight Oil, Yothu Yindi, Tom Petty, Lords of Acid, GMS, KMFDM, TOOL, David Bowie, Grateful Dead, Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, U2, The Cure, Marilyn Manson, A Perfect Circle, R.E.M., Radiohead, Pretenders, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Ramones, Bob Marley, Prince, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Duke Ellington, Classical, Jazz & Blues (LIVE!), Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Underworld, Enigma, Moby, Weezer, Psychedelic Furs, Bjork, Michael Penn, Frou Frou, Enya, Depeche Mode, Tenacious D, and many others...
"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them." - Pauline Kael
"The head of the Film Liaison Office makes no secret of his goals: flattering the US Army, winning support for its actions on the battlefield, and encouraging more soldiers to sign up. In short: pure propaganda." - History Channel's Hollywood and the Pentagon
I do Love films and consider them modern storytelling, as ancients did with folktales around campfires, but now with visuals provided by a screen of light. Today in America it is all about money, this is capitalism. Few movies make it through the Market-Researched, Corporate-Machine these days with soul or originality, but some try. In the end, it is all propaganda, and often more than we know... The plastic, superficial, greed-oriented world that is film, television (And more and more America), is a "beast which cannot be fed."
And, with that said...Some of my favorite films:
Bladerunner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, DUNE, Pink Floyd's The Wall, KOYAANISQATSI (Qatsi Trilogy), Magnolia, Brazil, 1984, THX-1138, Steppenwolf, Jacob's Ladder, AKIRA, The Abyss, The Fifth Element, Children of Men, ALIENS, Altered States, The Fountain, Matrix, Fight Club, Gattaca, Easy Rider, Godfather I-III, Goodfellas, Scarface, Wizards, The Wicker Man (1973), The Man Who Would Be King, Quest For Fire, 13th Warrior, 300, Soylent Green, The Omega Man, K-PAX, Heavy Metal, The Elephant Man, Natural Born Killers, Ghost in the Shell, Equilibrium, Dances With Wolves, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life, Waking Life, 12 Monkeys, Donnie Darko, The Prestige, The Illusionist, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart the Huckabees, PAPRIKA, Science of Sleep, City of Lost Children, Legend, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, MirrorMask, Pan's Labyrinth, Secret of NIMH, Manhunter, The Lost Boys, The Island, Aeon Flux, Minority Report, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, What Dreams May Come, Last of the Mohicans, Where the Buffalo Roam, Wall Street, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Naked, BLOW, Stargate, Videodrome, Taxi Driver, American Psycho, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Dr. Strangelove, Existence, Punch Drunk Love, Sneakers, Willow, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Howl's Moving Castle, Edward Scissorhands, Contact, Scanner Darkly, Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky, Element of Crime, 10,000 BC, Crash, They Live, Back to the Future I-III, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, Yellow Submarine, Disney's Alice in Wonderland, and many more...
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." - William Colby, former Director of the CIA
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, regarding availability & prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories.
TV is the opiate of the masses, I tend to just watch mostly films (which is like the coca of the masses), and a lot of documentaries. I do enjoy Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Science Channel, Comedy Central and Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. A few of my favorite shows over the years have included:
"One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs." - Alfred Hitchcock
"I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?" - Federico Fellini
"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology." - Michael Parenti
Kitaplar
I love to read and do a great deal of it. Most of the books I read are for research and often center around ancient cultures, beliefs & customs, or esoteric teachings. Some of my favorites include:
SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES by Manly Palmer Hall [1928]
MORALS AND DOGMA by Albert Pike [1871]
ISIS UNVEILED by H.P. Blavatsky [1877]
THE SECRET DOCTRINE by Helena P. Blavatsky [1888]
THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY by H.P. Blavatksy [1889]
THE DIONYSIAN ARTIFICERS by Hippolyto Joseph da Costa [1820]
STELLAR THEOLOGY & MASONIC ASTRONOMY by Robert Hewitt Brown
ANACALYPSIS by Godfrey Higgins
THE HIDDEN CHURCH OF THE HOLY GRAAL by Arthur Edward Waite [1909]
THE MASCULINE CROSS & ANCIENT SEX WORSHIP by Sha Rocco (pseud. of Hargrave Jennings) [1874]
THE NON-CHRISTIAN CROSS by John Denham Parsons [1896]
MAZZAROTH by Frances Rolleston [1862]
THE GOLDEN BOUGH by James G. Frazer
THE SACRED FIRE by Ben Zion Goldberg [1930]
THE BOOK OF ENOCH by R.H. Charles [1917]
THE GREEK MYTHS by Robert Graves
WHAT THE BEES KNOW by P.L. Travers
LADY OF THE BEASTS by Buffie Johnson
SYMBOLS, SEX, & THE STARS by Ernest Busenbark
CELTIC DRUIDS by Godfrey Higgins
DRUID AND DRUIDISM by T. D. Kendrick
THE SHINING ONES by Philip Gardiner & Gary Osborn
THE SERPENT GRAIL by Philip Gardiner & Gary Osborn
SYMBOLISM OF FREEMASONRY by Albert G. Mackey [1882]
DUNCAN'S MASONIC RITUAL & MONITOR by Malcolm C. Duncan [1866]
TURNING THE SOLOMON KEY by Robert Lomas
THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC by Arthur Edward Waite [1913]
HERMETIC MUSEUM by Arthur Edward Waite [1893]
H.P. BLAVATSKY & THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT by Charles J. Ryan
THE MASTERS & THE PATH TO OCCULTISM by G. de Purucker [1939]
THE COMPLETE RITE OF MEMPHIS by Allen H. Greenfield
THE ROOTS OF MODERN MAGICK by Allen H. Greenfield
THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE O.T.O. by Francis King [1973]
THE BOOK OF LAW by Aleister Crowley
THE BOOK OF LIES by Aleister Crowley
DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND by Aleister Crowley
MODERN SEX MAGICK: Secrets of Erotic Spirituality by Donald Michael Kraig
SECRETS OF WESTERN SEX MAGICK: Magical Energy & Gnostic Trance by U. D. Frater
OCCULT THEOCRASY by Edith Starr Miller
THE TWO BABYLONS by Rev. Alexander Hislop [1853]
THE POWER OF MYTH by Joseph Campbell
THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES by Joseph Campbell
THE WORLD'S 16 CRUCIFIED SAVIORS by Kersey Graves [1875]
PAGAN CHRISTS: STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE HIEROLOGY by John M. Robertson [1911]
INDIA IN PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY by Arthur Lillie [1908]
SUNS OF GOD by Acharya S
THE CHRIST CONSPIRACY by Acharya S
WHO WAS JESUS: FINGERPRINTS OF THE CHRIST by D.M. Murdock
JESUS NEVER EXISTED by Kenneth Humphreys
SELF CONTRADICTIONS OF THE BIBLE by William Henry Burr [1860]
DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA by Daniel C. Dennett
BREAKING THE SPELL: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW by Richard Dawkins
THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins
LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION by Sam Harris
THE END OF FAITH by Sam Harris
SKYWATCHERS, SHAMANS & KINGS: Astronomy & the Archeology of Power by E. C. Krupp
IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT ASTRONOMIES by E.C. Krupp
ECHOES OF ANCIENT SKIES: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations by E.C. Krupp
SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS by John M. Allegro
THE END OF A ROAD by John M. Allegro
SOMA: Divine Mushroom of Immortality by Gordon Wasson
PERSEPHONE'S QUEST By Wasson, Kramisch, Ott and Ruck
PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS OF THE WORLD by Paul Stamets
MYCELIUM RUNNING: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World by Paul Stamets
ARCHAIC REVIVAL by Terence McKenna
FOOD OF THE GODS By Terence McKenna
ASTROTHEOLOGY & SHAMANISM by Jan Irvin & Andrew Rutajit
WITCHCRAFT MEDICINE: HEALING ARTS, SHAMANIC PRACTICES, & FORGBIDDEN PLANTS by Claudia Muller-Ebeling & Christian Ratsch
PAGAN CHRISTMAS by Claudia Muller-Ebeling & Christian Ratsch
ANIMALS & PSYCHEDELICS: THE NATURAL WORLD & THE INSTINCT TO ALTER CONSCIOUSNESS by Giorgio Samorini
DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE by Rick Strassman THE ROAD TO ELEUSIS by Carl Ruck & A. Hofmann
PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story by Alexander and Ann Shulgin
THE SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP by Mordecai Cooke
PHARMACOPHILIA by Jonathan Ott
A NATION OF SHAMANS by Carl Lumholtz
PEYOTE RELIGION by Omer Stewart
THE PEYOTE CULT by Weston La Barre
SUSTO: A FOLK ILLNESS by Arthur Rubel
TALES OF A SHAMAN'S APPRENTICE by Mark Plotkin
MARIA SABINA SELECTIONS by Maria Sabina
SACRED MUSHROOMS OF MEXICO by Brian P. Akers
SACRED MUSHROOM OF VISIONS: Teonanácatl by Ralph Metzner
SACRED VINE OF SPIRITS: AYAHUASCA by Ralph Metzner
HALLUCINATIONS & SHAMANISM by Michael J. Harner
WAY OF THE SHAMAN by Michael J. Harner
MAGIC MUSHROOMS IN RELIGION & ALCHEMY by Clark Heinrich
MUSHROOMS & MANKIND by James Arthur
SHROOM by Andy Letcher
SHAMANISM: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
THE COSMIC SERPENT by James Narby
DARK SHAMANS: Kanaimà & the Poetics of Violent Death by Dr. Neil L. Whitehead
IN DARKNESS AND SECRECY: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery & Witchcraft in Amazonia by Neil L. Whitehead & Robin Wright
BEYOND THE BRAIN by Stanislav Grof
THE HOLOTROPIC MIND by Stanislav Grof
BEYOND DEATH: THE GATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Stanislav Grof
MODELS OF MADNESS, MODELS OF MEDICINE by Humphrey Osmond & Mirian Siegler
THE ARCHETYPES & THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS by Carl G. Jung
MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS by Carl G. Jung
THE UNDISCOVERED SELF by Carl G. Jung
THE FREUD/JUNG LETTERS by S. Freud & C. Jung
THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM by Wilhelm Reich
THE INVASION OF COMPULSORY SEX MORALITY by Wilhelm Reich
SEXUAL REVOLUTION by Wilhelm Reich
SAHARASIA by James DeMeo
WILL TO POWER by Friedrich Nietzsche
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL by Friedrich Nietzsche
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA by Friedrich Nietzsche
THE AGE OF REASON by Thomas Paine [1794]
COLLECTED WORKS by Ralph Waldo Emerson
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
PROPAGANDA by Edward Bernays
A PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Howard Zinn
WALL STREET & THE RISE OF HITLER by Antony C. Sutton
WAR IS A RACKET by Gen. Smedley Butler
CROSSING THE RUBICON by Michael Ruppert
FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter Thompson
THE DOOM GENERATION by Hunter S. Thompson
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST by Ken Kesey
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP by Philip K Dick
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
NAKED LUNCH by William S Burroughs
GNOMES by Poortvliet/Huygen
FAERIES by Brian Froud
A CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE by Larry Gonick
Kahramanları
"Every hero becomes a bore at last." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Unhappy the land that needs heroes." - Bertolt Brecht
I don't really have heroes, but there are a great number of people I respect and who have influenced my life...
Gerald Massey, Albert Churchward, Godfrey Higgins, Manly P. Hall, Joseph Campbell, Stanislav Grof, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, John Marco Allegro, Paul Stamets, William Irwin Thompson, David Spangler, Jerome Bruner, Albert Einstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Darwin, Col. Robert Ingersoll, Albert Hoffman, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Maria Sabina, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Adolf von Harnack, F.C. Baur, Rudolf Bultmann, Albert Schweitzer, Paul Tillich, H.P. Lovecraft, Helena Blavatsky, Terence McKenna, Hunter S. Thompson, Stanley Kubrick, Walt Disney, Don Bluth, Jim Henson, Brian Froud, Robert Crumb, Al Jafee, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, Alex Jones, Gary Webb, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin L. King Jr, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and others...
As an aspiring writer, I spend a great deal of my free time reading, writing and researching. Most of my educational background has centered around social psychology and human behavior. I have always had a great love of philosophy, art and history, and find it a great thrill to study the ancient worlds, cultures and beliefs of mankind throughout our history.
My research focuses greatly on mythology & theology, shamanism & curanderismo, the evolution of human consciousness, and our interpretations of reality and individual self. Having over 15 years of experience with "entheogens" and in the study of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacognosy, my research particularly aims to offer a scholarly, scientific, and personal approach to the significance of ethnobotanicals' use in human evolution. The history of human expression in art and symbolism also plays a great part in my studies and interests.
Along with my various interests, I collect shamanic & totemic antiques and tribal artifacts, with great focus on Mesoamerican (Aztec, Mayan) and Native American (Sioux, Navajo, Hopi, etc) cultures. My collection has quite a few fine pieces, several of which are truly museum quality, and I'm happy to preserve such beautiful memorabilia. Studying the rituals and ways of these ancient peoples and teachings is also a great passion of mine. The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, dreaming and learning are part of those everyday prayers...
While I currently work in the land of AmeriKKKan corporate madness, my passion is for enlightenment and artistic expression. I don't subscribe to "self-esteem," but rather believe in self-respect - just no more of it than we earn. In general, I'm highly self-reflective, quite down to earth, very honest (sometimes too much so), passionate, and a bit eccentric. I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large - this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual." - Aldous Huxley
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies." - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President (1801-1809)
"Reason, Observation and Experience - the Holy Trinity of Science - have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect." - Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Gods", 1872
"One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, who one is, what one is, why one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions." - Aleister Crowley
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato
"The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life." - Carl Jung
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." - Albert Einstein
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." - George Bernard Shaw
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung
"I believe in the religion of reason - the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the end that man may free himself from superstitious fear, to the end that he may take advantage of the forces of nature to feed and clothe the world." - Robert Ingersoll, "Why Am I An Agnostic?", 1896
"People are not only ready to profit by your wisdom, power, and greatness, but they are also eager to take advantage of your ignorance, weakness, and inability." - Hazat Inayat Khan
"If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on." - Terence McKenna
"I take upon myself all that appears negative, unsavory, perverse and obscene, the lust and the resulting sacrificial hysteria, in order to spare YOU the defilement and shame entailed by the descent into the extreme." - Herman Nitsch
"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves." - Elias Canetti
"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true." - Buddha
"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw
"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees... The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees." - William Blake
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." - Albert Einstein
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" - Carl Jung
"To fall in hell or soar angelic, you need a pinch of psychedelic" - Dr. Humphrey Osmond
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[Right] Mexican drawing of 16th Century shows man eating mushrooms with a god behind him, who is speaking through the mushroom.
Mayan mushroom stones 1000 - 300 B.C.E.
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein
"Science with religion is lame; religion without science is blind. Science without religion is useful, religion with science is useless." - Albert Einstein.
"If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men." - Paul-Henri, baron d'Holbach
"And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state." - Galileo Galilei
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A NORTHERN FAIRYTALE AND A SOUTHERN FAIRYTALE? A NORTHERN FAIRYTALE BEGINS "ONCE UPON A TIME....." AND A SOUTHERN FAIRYTALE BEGINS........... "Y'ALL AIN'T GONNA BELIEVE THIS SHIT."
dreamspore, i truly love your page! whenever i'm looking for something new to discover i always find something new to research that i find on your page. i made a film that you might like, it's only a 2 minute film. i hope you enjoy it!
Sending many blessings of all your heart desires!! ~*Star*~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "May those who love us, love us.
And those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts; And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we will know them by their limping. " ~irish blessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beyond what we "think" is everything else. Despite our best attempts to understand, understanding itself is only a fractional part. Rarely do these thoughts shine light upon the true measure and majesty of "that," of which we find ourselves here within.
Over six billion hearts beating circadian rhythms right now. Countless happenings taking place in this very moment. A baby comes in a grandfather steps out. Light shines and darkness descends. Today I witnessed the rising sun greeting the evening moon. May we not just believe it, but rather find the eyes to see it. Wishing you a beautiful and magical weekend. ~R~
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