A Culture Without Mythology Is Not Really

Indeed, The Line Between Perceiving And Hallucinating Is Not As Crisp As We Like To Think. In A Sense, When We Look At The World, We Are Hallucinating All The Time. One Could Almost Regard Perception As The Act Of Choosing The One Hallucination That Best Fits The Incoming Data.

Here Is This Three-pound Mass Of Jelly You Can Hold In The Palm Of Your Hand, And It Can Contemplate The Vastness Of Interstellar Space. It Can Contemplate The Meaning Of Infinity And It Can Contemplate Itself Contemplating On The Meaning Of Infinity.

Science Is Like A Love Affair With Nature; An Elusive, Tantalising Mistress. It Has All The Turbulence, Twists And Turns Of Romantic Love, But Thats Part Of The Game.

Your Conscious Life Is An Elaborate After-the-fact Rationalization Of Things You Really Do For Other Reasons.

Think About What Artists, Novelists And Poets Have In Common: The Ability To Engage In Metaphorical Thinking, Linking Seemingly Unrelated Ideas, Such As, 'it Is The East, And Juliet Is The Sun.'