Ambiguity Quote by Terence McKenna

“Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind”

— C. R. Strahan

“Several times per heartbeat, over and over from birth to death, we each separate the specific from the general, the figure from the ground,…

— Ted Orland

“The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.”

— Michael Pollan

“Our problem today is that we no longer believe in things but in symbols, hence our life has passed over into these symbols and…

— David R. Loy

Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos…

— Lewis Mumford

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

— Gloria Steinem

On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea. The mushroom…

— Terence McKenna

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Transformation begins with tearing down the old, stretching beyond the existing, and undergoing deformity to give life to an astounding form.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

Mushrooms grow from rot and thrive on death. It feels symbolic.

— Angela Scanlon