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Day of the Minotaur

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“A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.”

EgoPerceptionIntuitionRationalUnconsciousSpiritual GrowthSpiritual LifeIntuitiveLogical ThinkingSpiritual AwarenessUnconscious MindConsciousness Mind BrainAnalyticalFalse BeliefSoul Growth
Book:Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
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“The reason Dick's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual theoretical physics was done since the time of Newton was to begin by writing down some equations and then to work hard calculating solutions of the equations. This was the way Hans and Oppy and Julian Schwinger did physics. Dick just wrote down the solutions out of his head without ever writing down the equations. He had a physical picture of the way things happen, and the picture gave him the solutions directly with a minimum of calculation. It was no wonder that people who had spent their lives solving equations were baffled by him. Their minds were analytical; his was pictorial.”

SciencePhysicsNewtonTheoretical PhysicsIsaac NewtonRichard FeynmanAnalyticalOppenheimerFeynmanBetheHans BetheJulian SchwingerRobert OppenheimerSchwinger
Author:Freeman Dyson
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“Your story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run straight on to the end; because you do not analyze. Your heroes do this thing or that from this or that motive, which you assign without ever a thought of dissecting their mental and moral natures. Our feelings, you must remember, are far more complex than all that. In real life every act is the resultant of a hundred thoughts that come and go, and these you must study, each by itself, if you would create a living character. 'But,' you will say, 'in order to note these fleeting thoughts one must know them, must be able to follow them in their capricious meanderings.You have simply to make use of hypnotism, electrical or human, which gives one a two-fold being, setting free the witness-personality so that it may see, understand, and remember the reasons which determine the personality that acts.”

Writing AdviceCharacter BuildingAnalytical
Book:In the Year 2889
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