Grateful Dead

"It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness....... a gratefulness........ open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. .....I think in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be." -Dr Albert Hofmann, part of a speech given by him on his 100th birthday Today marks the 70th anniversary that chemist extraordinaire Dr. Hofmann - on a hunch! - synthesized LSD 25 at Sandoz Laboratories for the second time in human history and accidentally absorbed an amount small enough to produce a couple hours of effects, which led him to intentionally take 250 mcg. 3 days later and take his famous bicycle ride home. "Thank you" seems so shallow......

For the quote from Mr. Hofmann. All of us owe a large debt of gratitude to him. He gave us the soma of the gods and we launched a revolution to change the world. And, as Hunter S. Thompson said, "With the right kind of eyes you can look out into the Pacific Ocean and see where the wave peaked..." Jerry bore the psychedelic cross Albert created for 30 long years. In the end even he couldn't turn the tide. Did we help enough?

'A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.' - Hermann von Helmholtz

"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man." -Albert Einstein

'The work of memory collapses time.' - Walter Benjamin

"Farmers and gossipers both spread shit, but for completely different reasons." -me (hope Bob's ok; feel sorry for his family and loved ones that read the speculations spewed from assholes)

IF - THEN... IF - THEN

IF - THEN

"out of sight, out of mind" -the words engraved onto a large piece of red granite at the entrance to a local cemetery; I just noticed it today.

'Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime, and have fostered the growth of so much sordid feeling and so many fierce passions, that it may well be questioned, whether the mental and moral status of our population has not on the average been lowered, and whether the evil has not overbalanced the good.' - Alfred Wallace

"They can be like a sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can do for a field." -St. John of the Cross

"Love is a cosmic force whose sweepis irresistible." -The Science of Mind, page 608

"Love is the perfect stillness and the greatest excitement,and most profound act, and the word almost as complete as His name." -Rabia

'The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.' - Gilles Deleuze

The seeming contradiction of a rising accumulation of wealth and a rising amount of poverty is an interesting phenomenon that it is a very central theme. If human beings are basically good, then why don't the more capable share with the less capable? In the Western industrialized countries they do, to a greater or lesser extent. And it is a never-ending debate. Some people say that if he rich are forced to share with the poor then they are less inclined to be productive (and dominate nature so much). Isn't that a good thing? More animals, less global warming and a whole lot more go along with that. I like to believe that human beings are good but this very thing Wallace talks about leads me to believe that, on average,we are selfish and would destroy ourselves and our planet rather than share with the less fortunate. Human beings are the number one bad-ass animal on the planet, no doubt.

'Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.' - Jean Baudrillard

& dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void! Loves these quotes you are coming up with, Lard!

'Larks are the sparks torn from the revolving Earth as it turns like a wheel through the night.' - Ronald Duncan

"If people think that nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy." -Kurt Vonnegut

'Larks are the dance in which the dancer is still.' - Ronald Duncan

'When winter whips, old men discover their life is a dream they can't remember.' - Ronald Duncan

'The sun bleeds on the horizon till the day, like a fallow deer, is bled and the light is devoured and the lake is dead.' - Ronald Duncan

“If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? " - Jon Stewart

Put me on the plane.Hurry, hurry, hurry, Before I go insane! I want to be sedated.

'If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.' - Antonin Artaud

"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it." -Haim Ginott

"Sickness is not a spiritual Reality;it is an experience." -The Science of the Mind page 177

"Time will be as you interpret it,for of itself it is nothing." -A Course in Miracles

"Most of us are inattentive. Now, next time you are conscious of inattentive, you are attentive." -J. Krishnemurti, from: You Are the World

"No one can give unto us butourselves and no one can rob us but ourselves." -The Science of the Mind page 464

"When you need nurturing, don't handthe job over to someone else." -Elizabeth Clare Prophet, from: Alchemy of the Heart

" I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous." - Robert Brault

"It's the young person's prerogative to be noisy." - a line from the character Tom in the movie "Another Year"

"If we gaze longingly at joy, it willmake its home with us, and we shall enter its portals and be happy." -The Science of the Mind page 491

"Joy does not come from what you do;it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you." -Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

"Inamuch as you have done it untothe least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." -Matthew 25:40

"Love one another and you will be happy.It's as simple and as difficult as that." -Michael Leunig

"Only in a spirit of love, understandingand unity can there be wholeness." -How To Use The Science of Mind, page 138

"The basic principle ofspiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love." -Jack Kornfield

"Don't forget love; it willbring all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe." -Mira

XO

"5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor the destruction that lays waste at noonday." -Psalm 91 5 and 6 The Gideons International Nashville, Tennessee

"Love is at the center of man's being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love." -The Science of Mind, page 238

scienceofmind.com A goodness of goodness

Exchanging compliments isintellectual back scratching. -Fortune Cookie Lucky numbers 50, 47, 1, 35, 20 (imagine that) You are so beautiful, xo!

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. – Marquis de Sade

Fearless courage is the foundationof victory. -Fortune Cookie Lucky Numbers 20, 5, 15, 51, 27, 13

"You don't know" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5R7VsK9JWE

"Corn can't expect justice in a court composed of chickens." - African proverb Eric Holder, US Dist. Attorney promises Edward Snowden that he will not be given the death penalty or tortured if he returns to the US for trial. Kinda has all the feeling of that creepy guy driving slowly by the school sidewalk with his window down offering candy to the kids.

"There is nothing on this earthmore to be prized than true friendship." -Sir Thomas Aquinas