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But to this notion of bloodletting and the material transmutation of forms there corresponds an idea of purification. It has to do with isolating the very essence of any sensual ecstasy experienced momentarily and individually by the ...more
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John Brockman
“Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.”
John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

Scott Jurek
“The empty mind is a dominant mind. It can draw other minds into its rhythm, the way a vacuum sucks up dirt or the way the person on the bottom of a seesaw controls the person on the top. When I hear a runner say he “runs his own race,” what I hear is bushido.”
Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

Alejandro Jodorowsky
“One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

John Brockman
“If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.”
John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

John Brockman
“Space, time, and objects might just be aspects of a sensory desktop specific to Homo sapiens. They might not be deep insights into objective truths, just convenient conventions that have evolved to allow us to survive in our niche.”
John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

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