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Many of you believe that it is safe to make a nuclear bomb, but that it is insane to use your dreams as another method of manipulating daily life; or that it is all right to be consciously aware of your viruses, wars, and disasters, but that it is not all right to be consciously aware of other portions of the self that could solve such problems.
The Nature of the Psyche
Jane Roberts
I wish somebody designed a board game to make people understand that life is positive-sum; that the downside of most moves is never really as steep as it seems; that the upside can be unbounded; and that the best thing one can do is make as many moves as possible. In Marc Andreessen’s words, “optimize for the maximum number of swings of the bat.”
Nobody Cares – Florent Crivello
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As with any process involving integrity, the more we find out where we are at emotionally, the better we’ll be able to read other people’s emotions without becoming them. When we are feeling ourselves, there is less need to project our emotions onto others, i.e., feeling their emotions because we’re unwilling to feel our own.
Angel Tech
Antero Alli, Robert Anton Wilson (Introduction)
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