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Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother.
“1940s by neuroanatomist Harold S. Burr from Yale University, who studied and measured electrical fields around living things, specifically salamanders. Burr discovered that salamanders possessed an energy field shaped like an adult salamander, and that this blueprint even existed in an unfertilized egg.13”
― The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
― The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
“Van Vogt’s The World of Null-A—there was something about that which absolutely fascinated me.”
― Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
― Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“They believed that challenging entrenched authority entailed a concerted attempt to alter the institutions and policy-making apparatus that had been usurped by a self-serving power elite;”
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
“He found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason.”
― The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
― The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
“DICK: I think philosophically I fit in with some of the very late pre-Socratic people around the time of Zeno and Diogenes—the Cynics, in the Greek sense. I am inevitably persuaded by every argument that is brought to bear.”
― Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
― Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
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