Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.
Peter J. CarrollSome have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
Peter J. CarrollEvery new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.
Peter J. CarrollAs 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.
Peter J. CarrollMagic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.
Peter J. CarrollPhysical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance . To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems .
Peter J. Carroll