“Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.” IdeasSometimesChristianCausesDifferencesReligiousChristianityTakenTheoryEvidenceHistoricalIslamDuesLocalsIslamicInterpretationScholarSufiResemblanceEsoteric Book:The Elephant in the Dark Source: The Elephant in the Dark
“Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.” HumansMadeBookDifferentHandsAgeTakenWrittenMagicBibleCriticismHistoricalMade ItInvestigationLiterary CriticismCompositesDifferent AgesMany Hands Author:Bill Vaughan
“If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.” IfsNeedsLevelsConsciousnessTakenHistoricalAbsenceTransition Author:Terence McKenna
“My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.” TakenResearchHistoricalLibraryUniversityPublishingVentureInvolvementHarvardHistorical ResearchHarvard University Author:Robert Darnton
“I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.” WantHumansMeanBookDifferentTakenHistoricalHuman ExperienceTimelinesGeological Time Author:Douglas Coupland
“With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.” PeopleKnowsShouldHas BeensCharacterSeemsUnderstandingFictionLibertyNovelTakenEventsHistoricalDramaticPoeticLicenseAccordLatitudeHistorical NovelsPoetic License Author:Nicholas Meyer