“ As Thomas Pynchon wrote in Gravity’s Rainbow, It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off. Steven Kotler
“ Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder, wrote Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in her book Lean In, and she’s not wrong. Steven Kotler
“ In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor,… Steven Kotler
“ When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus, a part of the pleasure system that correlates with fe… Steven Kotler
“ When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that… Steven Kotler
“ No one can claim their particular vision of the divine as correct, if there are thousands of other 'visions' with which to compare it. And anyone who does try to claim the spotlight? Even a few decade… Steven Kotler
“ While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond the pale isn't always safe and secure. Outside the fence of state-… Steven Kotler
“ Ecstatic technology isn't limited to silicon chips and display screens. As John Lilly's early research established, it's the knowledge of how to tweak the knobs and levers in our brain. When we get it… Steven Kotler
“ When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes. Come Monday morning, we may still clamber back into… Steven Kotler
“ That day, after barely resurfacing from a seventy-two meter warm up dive into the Blue Hole, Mevoli went into cardiac arrest and died. This time, he wasn’t able to bring himself back. When asked to co… Steven Kotler
“ After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid. Steven Kotler
“ It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all. Steven Kotler
