Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

There's a seeker born every minute.

"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.