We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable. Peter J. Carroll More Quotes by Peter J. Carroll More Quotes From Peter J. Carroll Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles. Peter J. Carroll junk numbers people I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory . Peter J. Carroll magic self world If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability. Peter J. Carroll disability serious real In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god. Peter J. Carroll midnight taken dark Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them. Peter J. Carroll handle responsibility ideas 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. Peter J. Carroll giving believe years In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy. Peter J. Carroll adversity body mind He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe. Peter J. Carroll momentum universe Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize. Peter J. Carroll sand easier stones Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence. Some of the various densities of the aether have only a partial or probablistic differentiation into existence, and are somewhat indeterminate in space and time. In the same way that mass exists as a curvature in space-time, extending with a gradually diminishing force to infinity that we recognize as gravity, so do all events, particularly events involving the human mind, send ripples through all creation. Peter J. Carroll agency space mind 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. Peter J. Carroll flames water two We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird. Peter J. Carroll ignorant alternatives looks 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. Peter J. Carroll inspiration religious prayer The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface. Peter J. Carroll astrology psychology vocabulary It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child. Peter J. Carroll taken children years All Philosophy is Biography Peter J. Carroll biographies philosophy Space , time , mass, and energy originate from Chaos , have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence. Peter J. Carroll agency space energy No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism? Peter J. Carroll party philosophy fall Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature. Peter J. Carroll spatial linear scales
