Awareness
Michio Kaku – Will Mankind Destroy Itself?
“It’s humbling to realize that the developmental gulf between a minuscule ant colony and our modern human civilization is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilization – a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilization would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants.”
– Michio Kaku
Terence McKenna – Culture is not your friend
“The felt presence of immediate experience– this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.”
–Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna – You are the center of the Mandala
“It’s all about personal empowerment, and personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place.”
– Terence McKenna
Bill Hicks – Play From Your Fucking Heart
“When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?
I want my children listening to people who fucking rocked!”
– Bill Hicks
Related – Drugs – Life is Just a Ride
Alan Watts – Meaningless Life
“The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.”
– Alan Watts
Related – The Organic Dance of Life – Is It Serious? – Myth of Myself – To Speak the Truth.
Carl Jung – Death and the Psyche
“Look forward to the next day as if he had to spend centuries and then he lives happily. But when he is afraid and he doesn’t look forward; he looks back. He petrifies. He gets stiff and he dies before his time, but when he’s living on, looking forward to the great adventure that is ahead, then he lives.”
– Carl Jung
Mister Rogers & the US Senate
“This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, ‘You’ve made this day a special day by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are.’ And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service.”
– Fred Rogers