Quotes by Peter J. Carroll

Peter J. Carroll

All Philosophy is Biography

Biographies

Philosophy

Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.

Believe

Giving

Years

An old joke puts its thus, “when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia”… Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

Inspiration

Prayer

Religious

Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

Beautiful

Creativity

Mean

As a great master once observed: “There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse.” Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

Flames

Two

Water

Can we find “The Universe in a grain of sand”? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

Easier

Sand

Stones

Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.

Feelings

Lust

Mind

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

Arbitrary

Chaos

Wizards

Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty. But total liberty leads to various forms of “aristocracy” and decay. Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay. However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy.

Creative

Liberty

Opportunity

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

Destined

Form

Liberation

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Absolutes

Adversity

Agency

Alternatives

Arbitrary

Asks

Astrology

Attitude

Beautiful

Believe

Biographies

Body

Chaos

Children

Civilization

Claims

Creating

Creative

Creativity

Dark

Desire

Destined

Disability

Doubt

Easier

Energy

Facts

Fall

Fashion

Feelings

Flames

Fool

Form

Free Will

Gains

Giving

Handle

Ideas

Ignorance

Ignorant

Inspiration

Interpretation

Jokes

Junk

Laughter

Liberation

Liberty

Life

Linear

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Quotes by Peter J. Carroll

Peter J. Carroll

All Philosophy is Biography

As a great master once observed: “There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse.” Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

Can we find “The Universe in a grain of sand”? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

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