The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
Tell me, Harry, what difference would it make if it wasn't real?Harry thought a moment, his chinless face sour. We wouldn't have to do what we think we have to do. But even if we don't have to do what...
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called model agnosticism and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the w...
As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.The Thinker can think about virtually anything. (...) The Prover is a much simpler...
He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened...
Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens . The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open...
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
When we meet somebody whose separate tunnel-reality is obviously far different from ours, we are a bit frightened and always disoriented. We tend to think they are mad, or that they are crooks trying...
These ideas can be made more concrete with a parable, which I borrow from John Fowles’s wonderful novel, The Magus.Conchis, the principle character in the novel, finds himself Mayor of his hometown in...
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Entropy requires no maintenance.
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.