“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking - an empty attic is a primate's olympus.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Anatomy of Conspiracy
(Sonnet 2094-2095)
The biggest conspiracy
in the world is to make people
think that there is a conspiracy,
because when people believe
in conspiracy, they get paranoid,
and a paranoid population is the ideal
consumer for various soothsaying items,
from guns, bombs and nuclear weapons,
to crystals, chemtrails, chakras,
magnets, gemstones, ouija, racial purity,
and plots of land in the afterlife.
Now, some of these items and ideas may be
harmless, others downright villainous,
but they are all part and parcel of
an insecure primate's pursuit for control -
delusional though such control may be.
Conspiracy, superstition, conventional
or newage, it's all about control,
either self-inflicted or institutionalized -
you are searching for order where there
is none, so your brain cooks up one,
just to keep you satisfied - and you
start seeing faces in the clouds,
or patterns in your star charts.
Keep your mind open, just not so open
that your brain starts leaking -
an empty attic is a primate's olympus.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“An experimenter’s own biases, expectations and intentions, whether expressed knowingly and outwardly, or even held subconsciously, are known to influence certain experiments. This effect is so well known that it has a name: the ‘observer-expectancy effect’ or ‘experimenter effect’ and has itself been a topic of research.”
Source: Natural Remote Viewing
“Long after we've experimented with the final bizarre thing to feed cows, they will still do best eating grass. After we've exhausted the drugs, vaccines, and transgenic modification, our animals will still want to express their distinctives, live in historically normal habitats, and fill their traditional role.
Long after the final i-gadget has been discovered, we'll still yearn for hugs, kisses, and personal conversations. When we've traveled to the last exotic place and finished participating in the last recreational or entertainment venue on our list, we will want a haven and we will call it home.
...I'm surrounded by loving family - multiple generations. I'm surrounded by enthusiastic young people. I'm surrounded by land that I've watched heal over these last fifty years, from a worn-out, gullied mess to verdant pastures supporting poultry, cows, pigs, and rabbits. The intensity of my feelings springs from the intimacy of my knowledge of this place, its surroundings, the weather patterns, the seasons. I believe this is historically normal, and I covet that for others. Now go be a normal person.”
Source: Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
“Man needs peace, not war. Man needs love, not violence. We have been tortured enough with ideas of heros, war, propaganda, hate, destruction and violence.
Science has given us enough of destructive power and weapons that i f we go living in accordance with the old destructive values then and ideals humanity is finished.
The future belong to the new man, to the intelligent and creative people, not to the soldier.
Only love can give us the balance. Humanity has lived
against love up to now, and that is why there is so much
misery, hate, violence and destruction in the world. This is
because humanity has lived in a destructive way up to
now. Now there are only two alternatives: either
humanity changes or this is the end of humanity.
The time for the old values and ideals are over.We have to
live in accordance with a new life affirmative vision of life.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Knowledge expands by collapsing assumptions.”
“All science is an attempt to cover with explanatory devices-and thereby to obscure-the vast darkness of the subject. It is a game in which the scientist uses his explanatory principles according to certain rules to see if these principles can be stretched to cover the vast darkness. But the rules of the stretching are rigorous, and the purpose of the whole operation is really to discover what parts of the darkness still remain, uncovered by explanation.
But this game has also a deeper, more philosophic purpose: to learn something about the very nature of explanation, to make clear some part of that most obscure matter-the process of knowing.
(Epilogue, 1958)”
Source: Naven, Second Edition
“Y es que la vida en este planeta no sólo es breve sino de una endeblez deprimente. Constituye un curioso rasgo de nuestra existencia que procedamos de un planeta al que se le da muy bien fomentar la vida, pero al que se le da aún mejor extinguirla.”
Source: UNA MUY BREVE HISTORIA DE CASI TODO
“Truth changes based on the ignorance, and awareness, of your vantage point.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology