000255

“A woman who is true of heart is the ultimate threat to the fictional images that animate the interiority of many men. He sees her, too, as an image. A ‘special fiction’ like a bendable doll, but with dangerous, magical powers. The appearance of such...

000256

“…together, we shall pursue and embody the Great Mystery, with, and for… each other and all beings…” — [Paraphrased Fragment] the Original Vow

000257

“We’re terrified of AI gaining consciousness—but we gave corporations the rights of persons without even checking for a soul.” — infraheard (CG)

000258

” ON If you had a lamp that was turning on and off in ever decreasing intervals, beginning with 1 second… after a few minutes you would never be able to detect that it was ever off. Even though it could be off as much as 90% of the time. The persistence of...

000260

“Humans are not ‘a species’. In point of fact, ‘species’ is a convenience of distinction in representational thought. There are »no species. There are forms. And the forms are expressions of a transcendental unity that produces them. What...

000262

“The unimaginable poverty of our modern lives, leads, rather naturally, to our being captured by technologies. Much of our ‘ordinary lives’ are so bereft of novelty, meaningful roles and relationships, that a dead-inside object, the...