"What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world.
There's a fire starting in my heart
A man who knows the truth is a man to fear!
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-
evident
And maybe these death throes are really birth pains
we’re memories of wilderness and earth
Why take ourselves so seriously. No one else does.
Most mornings, the first thought that entered my head was to put a gun to it. Bang. Problem solved.
Half our troubles come from our consciousness of their existence, so that if we forget their existence, they actually cease to exist. Aleister Crowley, “Diary Of A Drug Fiend”
"Teach kids how to think, not what to think." - Richard Dawkins
Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth"
..."Is", "is." "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. — Robert Anton Wilson, The Historical Illuminatus
The only thriving wildlife still barely touched by man is the hot, poorly lit world within himself.
