Terence Mckenna
Philip Ball,
Olaf Stapledon
Aleister Crowley
Austin Osman Spare,
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Lacan
Jorge Borges
Carlos Castaneda
Samuel Beckett
Manuel DeLanda
Edgar Froese
Manuel Göttsching
Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh)
Brian Eno
Philip Ball,
Olaf Stapledon
Aleister Crowley
Austin Osman Spare,
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Lacan
Jorge Borges
Carlos Castaneda
Samuel Beckett
Manuel DeLanda
Edgar Froese
Manuel Göttsching
Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh)
Brian Eno
Moebius
Ettore Sottsass
PKD (Philip K Dick)
David Hume
William Gibson
Marshall McLuhan
Richard Feynman
Malcolm Gladwell
Marcel Proust
John Ashbery
David Attenborough
WB Yeats
Italo Calvino
Raymond Russell
Aleister Crowley
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ettore Sottsass
PKD (Philip K Dick)
David Hume
William Gibson
Marshall McLuhan
Richard Feynman
Malcolm Gladwell
Marcel Proust
John Ashbery
David Attenborough
WB Yeats
Italo Calvino
Raymond Russell
Aleister Crowley
Ursula K. Le Guin
JG Ballard
Frank Herbert
Alan Turing
William Blake
Douglas Adams
Aldous Huxley
Stewart Brand
Robert Anton Wilson
Timothy Leary
Francis Bacon
Henri Michaux
PB Shelley
Octave Mirbeau
Frank Herbert
Alan Turing
William Blake
Douglas Adams
Aldous Huxley
Stewart Brand
Robert Anton Wilson
Timothy Leary
Francis Bacon
Henri Michaux
PB Shelley
Octave Mirbeau
Quotes
David Attenborough
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World:
And what makes it worse, she thinks of herself as meat.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
Come, Greater Being, Social Friend
Feel how the Greater Being comes!
All sound had died away, and it was quite dark. But in the void and the silence there was still a kind of knowledge, a faint awareness.
The awareness knew only itself, and itself only as the absence of something else.
Terence Mckenna
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around.
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
Nature is ourselves.
Keep yourself as the final arbiter.
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.
You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening.
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
Terence McKenna, True Hallucinations
Thus, these quantum resonances carrying intimations of events at a distance only begin to acquire genetic reinforcement once a species has already achieved sufficient sophistication to be called conscious and mind-possessing. The use of hallucinogens can be seen as an attempt at medical engineering which amplifies, for inspection by consciousness, the quantum resonance of the other parts of the spatial continuum holographically at hand. This experience is the vision which the UFOs and psilocybin impart: visions of strange planets, life forms, perspectives and societies, machines, ruins, landscapes. The hierophanies all unfold in a "nunc-stans" that has all space standing in it, like a frozen hologram. Thus, experimentation with hallucinogens by human beings and the rise in endogenously produced hallucinogens as one advances through the primate phylogeny could both be due to a slow focusing on the phenomenon of imagination.
Nothing lasts but nothing is lost.
Matter is not lacking in magic, matter is magic.
You don’t want to become so open-minded that the wind can whistle between your ears.
Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existance is defined in terms of control.
The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation.
Philip Ball
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan, The Book of Probes (Published 2011)
While people are engaged in creating a totally different world, they always form vivid images of the preceding world.
Any new technology is an evolutionary and biological mutation opening doors of perception and new spheres of action to mankind.
There are no connections in resonant space. There are only interfaces and metamorphoses.
The electronic age is a world in which causes and effects become almost interchangeable, as in music structures.
The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity.
Our senses are not receptors so much as reactors and makers of different modalities of space. Perhaps touch is not just skin contact with things, but the very life of things in the mind.
Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always precede causes in the actual developmental order.
I am a pattern watcher.
Marshall McLuhan, Hot & Cool (1967)
I don't explain—I explore.
Casting my perils before swains