We are about to be subsumed by an idiocracy that only the patriarchy could have saved us from
A secret matriarchy running inside pre-industrial Europe.
One gets into Heaven by being good at it, and that means practice. How Shaker society was so unlike ours, and in this most zen way!
Quotes from the book
There is an Emily in each of us. It is incompatible with this world, and thereby reminds us that we are not native to it.
If you are permanently in a dream world, how do you spend your time? After all, nothing matters.
No responsible person spanks himself.
Civilisation requires compromises. In exchange for comfort, we lost our reason for being here.
Spirituality is either magic or it is ignorance. Ignorance demonstrably exists in this world; why is anything else needed?
The dreaming world is full of creatures that are self-delusional, reckless and wilful. Like you.