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There is no word for such a catastrophe. It would liquefy the surface of the planet, vaporizing the oceans and sterilizing everything from the mantle up. The world, for us and any possible creature that might ever evolve in the future to
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“Mimo, że jak teraz, jesienią, dzień wydawałby się coraz krótszy i krótszy, to coraz bardziej mi się dłuży. Nieraz gdy się rano zbudzę i pomyślę, że muszę do wieczora żyć, mam wrażenie, jakby to było znów od urodzenia do śmierci. Nie wiem, czy pan kiedyś coś takiego odczuwał, ale jakby coraz trudniej było przeżyć dzień.”
― Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli
― Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli
“When we look at The Last Supper, maybe we’re not looking at Christianity’s founding event. Maybe we’re getting a glimpse of the mysterious religion that was practiced by Plato, Pindar, Sophocles, and the rest of the Athenian gang. And just maybe this is how our identity crisis comes to a dramatic end: with a psychedelic plot twist.”
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
“Without the wine, there is no Dionysus. And without the Eucharist, there is no Christianity.”
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
“Jesus’s coming-out party in Cana was perfectly positioned, and perfectly timed, to pick up where Dionysus left off.”
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
“Participants in our study often described this experience with the newfound knowledge that consciousness survives bodily death—that we are not only our bodies—which is a profound gift to a person with a body that is failing, and will soon stop functioning due to advanced disease. It has been described as a transcendence of past, present, future. Timelessness in the moment. I’ve heard participants speak about feeling “outside of time.” The insight that we are not bound by the material world is a powerful one. It is psychologically, existentially and spiritually liberating.”
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
― The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
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