Citations
»When youth dies, foolishness sets in. That's why there's no fool like an old fool.« ~Anton S. LaVey
»Secrecy begets tyranny.« ~Ben Caxton, fictional character from "Stranger in a Strange World" by Robert A. Heinlein
»A formative moment arose one evening when someone came for a session whom I believed I had hypnotized before, but we'd only spoken about hypnosis, not tried it. However, thinking he was primed to respond to my cue, I sat him down and told him to "Sleep!", clicking my fingers in front of his face. He immediately closed his eyes, lolled his head and drifted off into a trance. My realization, after the session, that this was the first time I had hypnotized him was very confusing: how could he have responded to the suggestion if I had not given it to him? I realized that day that hypnosis works not because of a carefully worded magical script from a self-help book, but because the subject believes the process is effective. Over time I had refined this understanding, but the revelation was an important one.« ~Darren Brown
»I made it to 2010 and all i got from the scifi books of my youth, was the lousy dystopian government.« ~Unknown author
»When the sane abandon belief in democracy, it is left to the others.« ~Unknown author
»The adepts of the Tarot would say, quite simply, "We are alive and the plant is alive, so we can make friends. If you kill the plant first, you are asking for trouble."« ~Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
»Modern Science, intoxicated by the practical success which attended this innovation, has simply shut the door on anything that cannot be measured. The Old Guard refuses to discuss it. But the loss is immense. Obsession with strictly physical qualities has blocked out all real human values.« ~Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
»Those who decide have not been elected and those who have been elected have nothing to decide.« ~Horst Seehofer
»Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.« ~Kris Kristofferson
»God is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.« ~Hermes Trismegistus
»By focusing with perfect discipline on the body’s relationship to the ether, and developing coalesced contemplation on the lightness of cotton, one can travel through space.« ~The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
»The Master of the Temple has crossed the Abyss, has entered the Palace of the King's Daughter; he has only to utter one word, and all is dissolved. But, instead of that, he is found hidden in the earth, tending a garden.« ~Aleister Crowley
»The Spice extends life, the Spice expands consciousness, the Spice is vital to space travel.« ~Princess Irulan, Dune (film) 1984
»Wherever money is insufficient to bury the truth, ignorance, propaganda, and short memories finish the job.« ~Paul Craig Roberts
»Any mere theory is easy to upset. One can find flaws in the reasoning process, one can assume that the premisses are in some way false; but in this case, if one attacks the evidence for Dhyana, the mind is staggered by the fact that all other experience, attacked on the same lines, will fall much more easily.
In whatever way we examine it the result will always be the same. Dhyana may be false; but, if so, so is everything else.
Now the mind refuses to rest in a belief of the unreality of its own experiences. It may not be what it seems; but it must be something, and if (on the whole) ordinary life is something, how much more must that be by whose light ordinary life seems nothing!
The ordinary man sees the falsity and disconnectedness and purposelessness of dreams; he ascribes them (rightly) to a disordered mind. The philosopher looks upon waking life with similar contempt; and the person who has experienced Dhyana takes the same view, but not by mere pale intellectual conviction. Reasons, however cogent, never convince utterly; but this man in Dhyana has the same commonplace certainty that a man has on waking from a nightmare. "I wasn't falling down a thousand flights of stairs, it was only a bad dream."
Similarly comes the reflection of the man who has had experience of Dhyana: "I am not that wretched insect, that imperceptible parasite of earth; it was only a bad dream." And as you could not convince the normal man that his nightmare was more real than his awakening, so you cannot convince the other that his Dhyana was hallucination, even though he is only too well aware that he has fallen from that state into "normal" life.« ~Aleister Crowley
»'I'm hungry, mum, can I have some hope, please?'
'I'm so sorry, darling, you can't have hope today, only tomorrow - hope is always tomorrow.'
'So will I eat tomorrow, mum?'
'We can hope so now, dear, but when we get to tomorrow, we can only hope it's the next day.'« ~David Icke on Barack Obama