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“Space and time are like ghosts that vanish into thin air every time we try to grab them. Their ‘form’ is ‘emptiness’ referring to itself in a kind of cognitive short-circuit... [They] are names we give to certain configurations of subjective experience, not independent entities out there.”

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Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

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“Our culturally sanctioned notions of truth are meaningless concepts, idols of delusion. We’ve been chasing ghosts, mirages conceived and maintained entirely in the human intellect through circular reasoning and projections. This delusion pervades the way we relate to each other and the world. It underlies everything, from ethics to legislation, from trade to religious dogma, from our neuroses to street revolutions. In all these domains we scramble to find external references to ground the truth of the matter. A meaningless quest this is. We’ve become completely entranced by our own projections and lost ourselves in a hall of mirrors.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“The prize at the end of the path is handsome: the freedom to make the deliberate, guiltless choice of which untruth to live. Exercising this choice wisely is the art of life.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“Cynicism and fundamentalism are the two sides of one coin. Both practice voluntary blindness toward transcendent truth: one by refusing to acknowledge that shadows convey valid insights about it, and the other by taking a shadow to be the sole and complete truth.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“All explanations are myths whose truth-value we assign subjectively. They are true only insofar as we say that they are true. They are stories we conjure up and tell ourselves in order to make sense of the disconnected, context-free phantasmagoria of present perception.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“Past and future are myths: stories in the mind.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“The present is an intangible moment squeezed in between a growing past and an approaching future. Therefore, perceptual truths are, at best, an inconceivably fleeting part of the experience of life. The bulk of life consists of internal myths.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“Out of the quasi-nothingness of the now somehow comes everything.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“[The present moment] is a singularity that births all existence into form. It seeds our mind with fleeting consensus images that we then blow up into the voluminous bulk of projected past and future. These projections are like a cognitive ‘big bang’ unfolding in our mind. They stretch out the intangibility of the singularity into the substantiality of events in time. But unlike the theoretical Big Bang of current physics, the cognitive ‘big bang’ isn’t an isolated occurrence in a far distant past. It happens now; now; now. It only ever happens now.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“Existence only appears substantial because of our intellectual inferences, assumptions, confabulations and expectations. What is actually in front of our eyes now is incredibly elusive. The volume of our experiences - the bulk of life itself - is generated by our own internal myth-making. We conjure up substance and continuity out of sheer intangibility. We transmute quasi-emptiness into the solidity of existence through a trick of cognitive deception where we play both magician and audience. In reality, nothing ever really happens, for the scope of the present isn’t broad enough for any event to unfold objectively. That we think of life as a series of substantial happenings hanging from a historical timeline is a fantastic cognitive hallucination.”

Philosophy Spirituality Mythology

Book:More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.”

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