THE GHOSTS OF EMPIRE Quotes

“The myth of Eden and the idea of returning to it has destroyed more lives than any other myth. Eden was never lost. It was invented to explain our exile — the same optical illusion that has killed travellers in every desert on Earth: heat, light and thirst combine to create the mirage of water on the horizon, which always appears to be the same distance away, no matter how far the traveller walks towards it. A mirage is not a place. It is a symptom projected outward from the body’s desperation and mistaken for a destination.”
― Yamin Kogoya, THE GHOSTS OF EMPIRE: Religion, Memory and the Psycho-Cosmocide of the Human Cosmos