Techgnosis Erik Davis "...You can no more banish the noise on this network than you can banish the void from a cup- nor would you want to. You just attend to the chaos that comes until something unexpected blooms: a dilation in the mind, a dawning in the heart, and a shared breathing with beings so deep it reaches down to sinew... How can I speak of such things in this cynical day and age, when economy is god, and the enormity of the world's ills seems matched only by our incapacity to deal with them? Unmoored from folkways, grasping after figments, addicted to the novelty and compulsions of a hyperactive society, we drift in overdrive through the mounting wreckage. Amidst all the distracting noise and fury, the hoary old questions of the human condition- Who Am I? Why Am I Here? How do I Face Others? How do I Face the Grave? - sound distant and muffled, like fuzzy conundrums we've learned to set aside for more pragmatic and profitable queries. Waking up is hard to do when we rush about like sleepwalkers on speed.
" I suspect that unless we find clearings within our little corners of spacetime, such questions will never arise in all their implacable awe. .. Media machines will no more deliver these pregnant voids than the purchase of a sports utility vehicle will unfurl one of those open roads they show on th idiot box. Such clearings lie off-road, off the grid, offline. They are beyond instrumentality they are the holes in the net." -Erik Davis, TechGnosis
The Marriage of Sense and Soul Ken Wilber "So here is the utterly bizarre structure of today's world: a scientific framework that is global in its reach and omnipresent in its information and communication networks, forms a meaningless skeleton within which hundreds of subglobal, pre-modern religions create value and meaning for billions: and they each- science and religion each- tend to deny significance, even reality, to the other. This is a massive and violent schism and rupture in the internal organs of today's global culture, and this is exactly why many social analysts believe that if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious." -Ken Wilber,The Marriage of Sense and Soul
	Symbiotic Planet Lynn Margulis "If people ever journey to outer space,the endeavor will never be as machinate and barren as "Star Trek". The vision of sterile engineering emancipating us from our planetmates is not only tasteless and boring, it is hideous. No matter how much our own species preoccupies us, life is a far wider system. It is an incredibly complex interdependence of matter and energy among millions of species beyond (and inside) our own skin. These earth aliens are our relatives, our ancestors, and part of us. They cycle our matter and bring us water and food. Without "the other" we do not survive." - Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet
Global Mind Change Willis Harman "If one views the situation from the vantage point of an anthropologist from outer space, one sees clearly that an entirely new mode of thinking needs to be adopted, wherein the widespread elimination of human work that machines can be trained to do is taken as a stimulus to rethink and re-examine the basic assumptions of production-focused society. Society needs to take on a new "central project" now that keeping economic production in that position no longer makes sense"- Willis Harman, Global Mind Change
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