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23 November 2014

In the realm of human consciousness the highest and most sophisticated form of self-regulation is based on our ability to see ahead. It requires a knowledge of self and the cosmos and of self in the cosmos. The evolutionary need is to increase our breadth of consciousness as human beings, to expand our range of choice for the wisest alternatives. The human capacity to anticipate and select will be the means whereby the future of human evolution will be determined.

Jonas Salk, who wrote in Anatomy of Reality:

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14 November 2014

It’s not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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04 November 2014

think creatively inside technology

– Will Self

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16 September 2014

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– Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

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