Quotes About Exploration

O ceticismo em um grau elevado é um lugar estimulante para ser visitado (por um romancista), mas certamente não desejo viver lá.

Personally, I don't trust mystic experiences, including my own — although I seek them and enjoy them. I think Altered Consciousness offers new ways of perceiving/conceiving and should start philosophical investigation, not stop it.

Tibetan Space-Time-Warp Star-Nova Trips

Researchers don't do certain kinds of research because they don't want to get thrown into San Quentin, as happened to Dr. Leary.

Maybe — just maybe — the taboo breached by Velikovsky is this: We are not supposed to think about Planetary Catastrophes.

Magick provides a powerful context and support system for even the darkest or most fucked-up times and experiences. Following in the footsteps of Harry Potter, every boy and girl should familiarize themselves with the disciplines of magic even if only for shits and giggles. It's also engaging and absorbing and creative to make spells and do rituals and to form rewarding relationships with things that shouldn't exist.

Robert Anton Wilson helped me realize that not all doors lead outward. The best ones, the ones that lead to the most exciting and uncharted places, are within. And no one in this world can withhold the key that unlocks those doors from us.

As I sat on death row, reading his work created a doorway that allowed me to walk out of my cell and into a universe of infinite wonder. He taught me how to begin creating my own world, and how to leave behind the mundane and mediocre drudgery that seemed to swallow most people whole.

1. Determine to enjoy this primitive circuit fully from now on. Play with yourself and others and the environment shamelessly, like a newborn baby. Meditate on "Unless ye become as a little child, ye shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven." (paraphrase of Matthew 18:3)

5. James Joyce said he never met a boring human being. Try to explain this. Try to get into the Joycean head space, where everybody is a separate reality-island full of mystery and surprise. In other words, learn to observe.

And once you have built that bigger, funnier, happier universe of thought, build a bigger and better one, for next month.

What is not-tuned-in by the best scientific instruments of 1986 may easily be tuned-in in 1987, for all we know.

When in doubt do something; and hope that if you keep doing it you'll come to understand what it is.

This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

O desfiladeiro de Shibar tem mais de três mil metros de altitude, e já estávamos perto do limite das neves eternas quando deixámos para trás o fiozinho de água do Kunduz, no ponto em que iniciava a sua longa viagem em direcção ao Oxus e ao Mar de Aral. Cinco minutos mais tarde, outro fiozinho iniciava uma viagem ao encontro do rio Indo e do Oceano Índico. A geografia tem as suas emoções.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Kerri turned each page slowly, lifting the next page and scanning the pictures

Pike didn't know what he would find or if he would find anything, but the Malibu's back seat was filled with their duffels and sleeping bags. Pike checked to make sure no one was watching, then used a jiggler key to open the car. Pike

Geography informs, rather than determines. Geography, therefore, is not synonymous with fatalism.

FOR THE REAL ADVENTURE of travel is mental. It is about total immersion in a place, because nobody from any other place can contact you. You are alone. Thus your life is narrowed to what is immediately before your eyes, making the experience of it that much more vivid and life-transforming.

Like serious reading itself, real travel has now become an act of resistance against the distractions of the electronic age, and against all the worries that weigh us down, thanks to that age. A good book deserves to be finished, just as a haunting landscape tempts further experience of it, and further research into it. Travel and serious reading, because they demand sustained focus, stand athwart the nonexistent attention spans that deface our current time on Earth.22

you must seek to become more than what you are by exposing yourself to different lands

Whatever works, that's my philosophy. I don't care if it's magic beans or a prayer cloth dipped in the Jordan River.

Ignorance is fertile ground.