“It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.” IfsWorldInterestingCreativityEgoMessagesWindowUnconsciousSubconsciousEmailInstagramDaydreamingProfileIphoneIpodsGadgets Author:Jarvis Cocker
“No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.” MindIdeasLanguageMessagesConsciousPlantProfoundCommunicateMysteriousRevelationsUnconsciousChemicalsImplicationsConscious MindHallucinogens Author:Terence McKenna
“To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.” GivingTryingHumansFactsFeelingsProductsMessagesConsciousAppearanceDuesAriseStatementsUnconsciousIntroducingTranslateGrossTranslationsPremisesDistortionPropensityInvoluntaryFalsification Author:Greg Bear
“[Carl Gustav] Jung was not right when he said that the unconscious message is always written clearly and so there is no need to seek to discover the distortions, because one must recognize that many dreams are more or less distortions.” NeedsSaidDreamWrittenMessagesUnconsciousDistortionJung Author:Erich Fromm