And it is that great old time again, the time where I am to step foot once more out of my comfort zone to be thrust into another supposedly uncomfortable situation. But no matter, it seems like I have done this hundreds of times before – and indeed we all have! Goodnight and goodbye Saigon, as Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is calling my name – she is ready for me now!
“If the words “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.”
– Terence McKenna, read in Clifford Pickover’s A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
“Our society desperately needs generalists who traverse several fields and then bring together ideas in ways that specialists may be unable to do, but we seem to be learning more and more about less and less until we know everything about nothing.”
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality
“One vital characteristic of a highly creative person is that they have at least one other person in their life who doesn’t think they are completely nuts.”
– Vera John-Steiner, in Helen Phillips’s “Looking for Inspiration,” New Scientist, October 29, 2005, read in Clifford Pickover’s A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality