Peter J. Carroll Quotes

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• Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.
• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end…
• Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
• 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…
• 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…
• If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?
• 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.
• Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.
• He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.
• Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.
• In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.
• 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…
• 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…
• In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.
• 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…
• 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…

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