Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012 by Drunvalo Melchizedek

God is within you and all around you. – St. Thomas, Gospel of the Christ The truth is still the truth no matter how much man distorts it. Mankind long ago lived not from the mind, but the heart. It was dreaming that created the world, but now it is thinking that is shaping our [...]

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything know about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual [...]

Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences — and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on — whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made… But I know [...]

Mysterious Origins of Man [1996]

Knowledge filter – This is a fundamental feature of science. It is also a fundamental feature of human nature. People tend to filter out things that don’t fit, that don’t make sense in terms of their paradigm or their ways of thinking. So in science you find that evidence that don’t fit the accepted paradigm [...]

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

[The Nine Insights] All that any of us have to do is suspend our doubts and distractions just long enough… Even though we occasionally have the clear insight that something more is going on in life, our habitual way of thinking is to consider such ideas unknowable and then to shrug off the awareness altogether. [...]

Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins

…still he is not likely to allow objectivity to nudge him off the pillar of his own perspective. Logic only gives man what he needs. Magic gives him what he wants. The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of one’s existence – the characteristic mode of one’s actions – is [...]

Lila by Robert M. Pirsig

Your head is like a cup. It has limited capacity and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head empty in order to learn it. It’s very easy to spend your whole life swishing old tea around in your cup thinking it’s great stuff because you’ve never really tried [...]

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

A supernova occurs when a giant star, one much bigger than our own Sun, collapses and then spectacularly explodes, releasing in an instant the energy of a hundred billion suns, burning for a time more brightly than all the stars in its galaxy. It’s one of those rare areas where the absence of evidence is evidence. To [...]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

[Click here for more on Metaphysics of Quality] Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere. We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than “time” and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes. One does not convert individuals [...]

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. - Henri Poincaré