“The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.” FirstsHeartSelfStatesLyingCoursesSecretPossibilityKissingLipsMythElectricGiftedSignalsPsychedelicCrudeRaptureFirst KissSweetheartStaplesNonsensicalChange Of Heart Book:the female eunuch Source: the female eunuch
“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.” IfsRealityImaginationSpaceSecretCitiesCuttingNew YorkPoetCreatingTraditionMythDisappearLondonParisRomeSailFloatsMoscowLeningrad Author:Nina Berberova
“Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life and death, and therefore they alone could practice the magical art of healing... The emergence of women whose consciousness blends with the ancient themes of healing is the single most promising event in health care.” WorldArtCareSecretHealingConsciousnessPracticeEventsAncientMythAround The WorldHealth CareThemeLife And DeathHealerEmergenceSecret Life Author:Jeanne Achterberg
“Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.” StatesLawOrderNationsSecretVirtueTaxesArmyPoliceCourtMythObediencePropagandaAssumptionJailTreatiesCivicsLaw And OrderSecret PoliceCivic Virtue Book:The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation Source: The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation