Quotes

The first thing to depart in mental illness is the familiar. And what takes its place is bad news because not only can you not understand it, you also cannot communicate it to other people. The madman experiences something, but what it is or where it comes from he does not know

They see me, but they don’t look at me. That’s cool. Don’t look at me, try and pretend you don’t see me, cool dude and hot chick, just keep walking, ’cause your shoes are new and your hair is fine, keep on walking and ignore the Future. The Future won’t ignore you.

We are all more than the sum of what happened to us. I am not what happened to me – I am what I choose to become.

30. The phenomenal world does not exist; it is a hypostasis of the information processed by the Mind.

31. We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing.

[The] institution of the home is the one anarchist institution. … [I]t is older than law, and stands outside the State.

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

Sam Parnia’s book *Erasing Death* is simply blowing my mind. Our species is beginning its first scientific exploration into what happens to consciousness after we die. Through resuscitation medicine, we can now bring people who have died back, after they have progressed hours into the death process. (Death being defined as cardiac arrest, no respiration, and fixed dilated pupils.) As our science in this area advances in the future, we’ll be able to bring people back who have gone farther and farther into the death process. It’s amazing that we’ll actually be able to scientifically study the process of death—this has to be the fascinating science ever! It seems that our religions may arise from a collective memory of what happens to us after we die, from multiple perspectives and interpretations, and that there may be an interplay between biological evolution and reincarnation, where a subtle quantum “spirit” structures evolve with biology over time. Perhaps, eventually, we’ll not only come to understand what happens to us after we die, but to build technologies that allow for communication and transportation between the realms of life and death.

Society should be orchestrated to support the pursuit of ecstasy.