“Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beings
as men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Marduk may be able to be revived. He may already be revived, for the reader may recall that it was precisely Father Enki who revived Inanna previously. Therefore, the technology was available, and possibly Enki revived Marduk.”
Source: 666: Connection with Crowley
“[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows:
'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".'
'Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?' Alice said, trying to feel interested.
'No, you don't understand,' the Knichgt said, looking a little vexed. 'That's what the name is called. The name really is "The Aged Aged Man".”
Source: Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
“Dr. Peter Levine, who has worked with trauma survivors for twenty-five years, says the single most important factor he has learned in uncovering the mystery of human trauma is what happens during and after the freezing response. He describes an impala being chased by a cheetah. The second the cheetah pounces on the young impala, the animal goes limp. The impala isn’t playing dead, she has “instinctively entered an altered state of consciousness, shared by all mammals when death appears imminent.” (Levine and Frederick, Waking the Tiger, p. 16) The impala becomes instantly immobile. However, if the impala escapes, what she does immediately thereafter is vitally important. She shakes and quivers every part of her body, clearing the traumatic energy she has accumulated.”
Source: Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned From Ultimate Betrayals And Unconditional Love
“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if the environment looks safe, inhibit the primitive defensive reactions to fight, flight or freeze.”
Source: The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
“A new mind, equals a new life.”
“On the other hand, mere critical thinking, without creative and intuitive insights, without the search for new patterns, is sterile and doomed. To solve complex problems in changing circumstances requires the activity of both cerebral hemispheres: the path to the future lies through the corpus callosum.”
Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“In a way, science might be described as paranoid thinking applied to Nature: we are looking for natural conspiracies, for connections among apparently disparate data. Our objective is to abstract patterns from Nature (right-hemisphere thinking), but many proposed patterns do not in fact correspond to the
data. Thus all proposed patterns must be subjected to the sieve of critical analysis (left-hemisphere thinking).”
Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more adept at such right -hemisphere functions as imagination, pattern recognition and general creativity.”
Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence