Dee’s Reviews > Hippie > Status Update

Oh yanno

:>

Wish I wasn’t borrowing this book from the library so i could annotate and spend more time with it

“Doctors have a label for this, "temporary stress-induced schizophrenia," and have never bothered looking

into the exact consequences of the flat affect, as they call it. And, perhaps to expel the ghosts of his past once and for all, Paulo relived the entire ordeal through to the very end”

“The answer was simple: their panic was so great that they were no longer present. The brain blocks out everything, there's neither terror nor fear, just a strange submission to what's about to occur. Emotions vanish to make way for a sort of limbo, where everything happens in a zone that scientists have been unable to explain to this day.”

“He always asked himself how those walking to the gas chambers in the concentration camps or lined up for death at a mass grave, watching the firing squad execute the front line, never had the slightest reaction, never tried to run, never attacked their executioners…cont”

“…the Love Supreme knows you are alive and will teach you all you need to know”

“Those who wish to learn magic ought to begin by looking around them. All that God wished to reveal to man He placed right in front of him, the so-called Tradition of the Sun. The Tradition of the Sun belongs to all-it wasn't made for the erudite or the pure but for everyday people. Energy is to be found in the tiniest things man encounters in his path; the world is the true classroom”

Gee wiz