C. L. R. James Quotes
The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn't exist.
He growled low in his throat. “I don’t think I can do this the nice way, Jessica.
Shamanism is not simply a component of society: on the contrary, shamanism, together with its tiered cosmos, can be said to be the overall framework of society.
Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.
Primary consciousness is a state of being aware of things in the world – of having mental images in the present.But it is not accompanied by any sense of a person with a past and future…
Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…
I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East and Europe.
Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.
Once human beings had developed higher-order consciousness, they had the ability to see mental images projected onto surfaces and to experience afterimages.
For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.
In Lascaux and other sites, hoofs are depicted to show their underside, or hoofprint.
The portable animal statuettes were therefore far more than decorative trinkets: they were reified three-dimensional spirit animals with all their prophylactic and other powers.
Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.
The Upper Palaeolithic figures known as ‘wounded men’ occur at Cougnac and Pech Merle, two sites in the Quercy district of France.
The ‘wounded men’ may, I argue, represent a form of shamanistic suffering, ‘death’ and initiation that was closely associated with somatic hallucinati
In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.
There were at least four contexts in which San shamans acquired insights into the spiritual world: – the trance dance, – special curing rituals, – viewing rock art, and – dreams.
The principal aim of a vision quest is to ‘see’ a spirit animal that will become the quester’s animal-helper and source of his power.
A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world, were a kind of “killing”.
I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".
The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long and that the light shone through them.
If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick...
Thomas had lived in fear and terror the past few weeks, but this was almost too much. To feel safe only to have that snatched away again.
The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them?
Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.
Good is equal to Order While, Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me.
Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.
Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!
Later, " Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.
Be open to ideas and thoughts you disagree with. It will unleash a debate in your mind and soul.
He let out a short laugh. "You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?
By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.So, of course, it came out to meet him.
By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.
My instinct told me that she didn't want me to understand. What she felt and lived with couldn't be shared or understood by anyone else.
Dr. Morris believes, and I strongly agree, that couples are most likely to bond securely when they have not rushed the dating experience. Time is the critical ingredient.
Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.
Careful with what you know and what you experience. Sometimes, closed mouth with memories is better than opened mouth with stories.
Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are there as a reminder of what we have been through…
Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost... It is what you live in.
It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man.
If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.
At the end of the second week they were still working and Arretapec, Conway and their patient were being talked, whistled, cheeped and grunted about in every language in use at the hospital.