Alan Joshua > Alan's Quotes

“Human consciousness, not space, is the final frontier.”
― Alan Joshua

“Myths grew from the ancient tradition of passing on knowledge orally, the only means of doing so before writing.
They’re narratives of human existence. They helped our ancestors interpret reality, solve problems, and guided social behavior. They structured natural and social information into patterns using symbols, and embedded fact into story form. This increased their impact, making information meaningful and personally involving—not just cold, detached facts.”
― Alan Joshua, The SHIVA Syndrome

“Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.”
― Alan Joshua, The SHIVA Syndrome

“When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.”
― David Icke

“Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.”
― Alan Joshua, The SHIVA Syndrome

“The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to leave the entrapment of "normal" beliefs to understand them much as zero gravity can't be understood when you are earthbound.”
― Alan Joshua, The SHIVA Syndrome

“Paranormal phenomena are only a
collection of abilities that challenge known science.Physical laws
don’t explained them. You have to go beyond the limits of traditional
categories to make any sense of them.
Beau Walker--The SHIVA Syndrome”
― Alan Joshua, The SHIVA Syndrome

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.”
― Alan Joshua, The SHIVA Syndrome

“To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.”
― Alan Joshua, The SHIVA Syndrome