Peter A. Lio

“We certainly strive for reality in terms of asking our audience to believe the motivations, reactions, and behavior of our characters, but do I know when Veronica has time to do her homework? Not really.”
― Rob Thomas, Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars

“One important consequence of this approach is that the meaning or full activity of a drug can only be worked out and constructed in practice. A drug's effects, in this view, aren't discovered, but nor are they purely invented. Instead, they are enacted.”
― Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

“Human beings are vulnerable to illness because they are born in a fallen state, for which Paracelsus had invented the term cagastrum, and therefore the attainment of health ultimately implies spiritual as well as bodily regeneration towards a state of purification. Healing means ultimately reversing the Fall.”
― Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed

“Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly… with the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science. It then continues with a more or less extended exploration of the area of anomaly. And it closes only when the paradigm theory has been adjusted so that the anomalous has become the expected. —Thomas Kuhn”
― James T. Lacatski, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program