Sol Luckman > Quotes

“Loosh is a hyperdimensional energy given off by the human soul when traumatized. The Archons parasitically feed on it. Think of it as their simulacrum of kundalini.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“When it rains it pours and when it shines you get melanoma.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with the fragments of a million broken dreams.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was the
Omega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end—and that the end was just another beginning.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“entanglement: (n.) quantum physics term for when the sheets wrap around two bodies in space.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and unconfined—in which he transcended his own personality and became one with everything he perceived.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“Anytime you see dichotomies that ignore the human experiment’s infinite nuances, you can be certain you are encountering the Archontic mind.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“When one studies the history of terrestrial religions, it soon becomes clear that so-called primitive peoples everywhere shared a belief in the divinity of the earth. In other words, Goddess worship was universal—until the dawn of the monotheistic, paternalistic religions.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starbursts of light brightening both sky and water. It was hard to tell which was reality and which was reflection, as if there were two displays, above and below, going on simultaneously—one in space-time, mused Max, and the other in time-space.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“May the Luminous Child awaken in you.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“You are blessed and cursed with consciousness, my child, in a society that has done everything imaginable to remove your kind from its gene pool.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“Religions that began worshipping a single male ‘God’ were an Archontic construct holographically inserted into history in order to separate humanity from its spiritual roots in the earth.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“You just need to be convincing enough to fool the public. That’s easy.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“bathroom: (n.) where Americans go to argue about gender while the country goes down the toilet.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“Kicking an art addiction is a heck of a lot harder than going sober.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“There are certain pivotal moments in life when clarity replaces its opposite in the blink of an eye.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“I wonder what would happen if everyone suddenly woke up together and realized they’d been living in an invisible prison run by greedy psychopaths.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

“In today’s mesmerizing digital landscape, our attention is madly sought after. Algorithms are ingeniously designed to keep us hooked like addicts by feeding us mainlines tailored to hold us captive—in mind and perhaps eventually even in body.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke