“A large, white, winged horse stands before me, wings outspread and nostrils dilated, she writes. He tells me that he is here to carry me into the moonlit realms of imagination, dreams, and intuition. He uses his hooves to strike at the ground of my being, to trigger wellsprings of poetic inspiration and artistic creativity fed by memories of times long since past, memories that often creep into the dream time. Furthermore, he says the deep unconscious – in the form of a magician’s spell – is calling to me to remember who I have been and who I am destined to be.”
― Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery
― Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery
“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”)
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
― The Voyeur's Yacht
― The Voyeur's Yacht
“People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
― The Pythagorean
― The Pythagorean
“Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
― Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
― Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
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