Todd Maxwell Preston

“Standing up for a cause only serves the cause without serving the whole of humanity. Standing up for yourself can only serve the whole of humanity through your reconnection with it. Showing up for humanity creates a harmonic balance that connects you to the living source that we all come from. When this happens the cause loses its form of self-delusional separation by accepting the truth of who we really are.”
― Todd Maxwell Preston, Sacred Road: My journey through abuse, leaving the Mormons, & embracing spirituality

“The cycle of time seems to spin its delicate tapestry into our souls, opening the beauty that was there all along. The shifting sands of time fall like ghosts from a faraway dream. Illusions like the Mormon Church that I blindly believed in – making life decisions based on dogma and tradition that someone years ago had written.”
― Todd Maxwell Preston, Sacred Road: My journey through abuse, leaving the Mormons, & embracing spirituality

“From our first day alive on this planet, they began teaching society everything it knows and experiences. It was all brainwashing bullshit. Their trio of holy catechisms is: faith is more important than reason; inputs are more important than outcomes; hope is more important than reality. It was designed to choke your independent thinking and acting—to bring out the lowest common denominator in people—so that vast amounts of the general public would literally buy into sponsorship and preservation of their hegemonic nation. Their greatest achievement was the creation of the two-party political system; it gave only the illusion of choice, but never offered any change; it promised freedom, but only delivered more limits. In the end, you got stuck with two leading loser parties and not just one. It completed their trap of underhanded domination, and it worked masterfully. Look anywhere you go. America is a nation of submissive, dumbed-down, codependent, faith-minded zombies obsessed with celebrity gossip, buying unnecessary goods, and socializing without purpose on their electronic gadgets. The crazy thing is that people don't even know it; they still think they're free. Everywhere, people have been made into silent accomplices in the government's twisted control game. In the end, there is no way out for anyone.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager

“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is that all this Western-American conditioning has been on autopilot for centuries. Nobody is in control of it anymore. It's a mindless goliath wandering the Earth, devouring lives, erasing potential, and following its every whim—regardless of how irrational, obscene, uneducated, enslaving, or backwards its actions are. The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager