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When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.