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Mikal
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“Personally, I have a great faith in the resiliency and adaptability of man, and I tend to look to our tomorrows with a surge of excitement and hope. I feel that we’re standing on the threshold of a liberating and exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man’s consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the cosmos. I have a deep and abiding belief in man’s potential to grow and learn, to plumb the depths of his own being and to learn the secret songs that orchestrate the universe. We live in a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest, but the agony of our age is the labor pain of rebirth.”
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“Cannabis confers agency over the aesthetic constitution of the real.”
― Sacred Derangement: A field guide to outrageous creativity, radical self-expression and living in awe
― Sacred Derangement: A field guide to outrageous creativity, radical self-expression and living in awe
“Words create worlds.”
― Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
― Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
“[Y]ou got tuh go there tuh know there.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Historically, discoveries of pure science are slow to reach the mainstream compared with those of the applied sciences, which noisily announce themselves with new medicines and gadgets. The Hubble has proved an exception, remaking, in a single generation, the popular conception of the universe. It has accomplished this primarily through the aesthetic force of its discoveries, which distill the difficult abstractions of astrophysics into singular expressions of color and light, vindicating Keats’s famous couplet: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” Though philosophy has hardly registered it, the Hubble has given us nothing less than an ontological awakening, a forceful reckoning with what is. The telescope compels the mind to contemplate space and time on a scale just shy of the infinite.”
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Mikal’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mikal’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
77 books
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133 friends
473 books
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25 friends
452 books
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59 friends
761 books
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5 friends
652 books
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75 friends
386 books
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395 friends
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