"This was the world—a poor thing but my own—which I expected to see transformed into something completely unlike itself."
" it had always seemed to me possible that, through hypnosis, for example, or autohypnosis, by means of systematic meditation, or else by taking the appropriate drug, I might so change my ordinary mode of consciousness as to be able to know, from the inside, what the visionary, the medium, even the mystic were talking about."
“Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.”
Okur Takip Önerileri
“But in certain cases communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent.”
“We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
“Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.”
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves.”
Sayfa 8
“Certain of these changes are similar to those which occur in that most characteristic plague of the twentieth century, schizophrenia. Is the mental disorder due to a chemical disorder? And is the chemical disorder due, in its turn, to psychological distresses affecting the adrenals?”
Sayfa 8
“In other words, each one of us may be capable of manufacturing a chemical, minute doses of which are known to cause profound changes in consciousness.”
Sayfa 8
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
“He sensed it, the race consciousness that he could not escape. There was the sharpened clarity, the inflow of data, the cold precision of his awareness. He sank to the floor, sitting with his back against rock, giving himself up to it. Awareness flowed into that timeless stratum where he could view time, sensing the available paths, the winds of the future… the winds of the past: the one eyed vision of the past, the one-eyed vision of the present and the one-eyed vision of the future- all combined in a trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space.”
“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”
« Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly. »
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and it meets resistance.”