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In Gnostic and Platonic traditions, the creative craftsman or lesser deity who shapes the material world.
A concept used to describe a mode of rationality or way of thinking that looks to invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material conditions, or present the illusion...
The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief.
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Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the moon...
Source: My Life by Bill Clinton
For those who have a sense of this invisible, other reality, the answers to life’s mysteries offered by modern science are inadequate and unsatisfying. They are unable to accept them and they find themselves seeking something else.
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.
Whatever he's been smoking's been immunizing him to all our shit.
Source: The Cabin in the Woods
Here they are hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour and the only thing that keeps them from flying out of their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.
Source: 3rd Rock from the Sun
What this secret tradition reveals is that the one whom most Christians naïvely worship as creator, God, and Father is, in reality, only the image of the true God. According to Valentinus, what Clement and Ignatius mistakenly ascribe to God...
Source: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute—and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to...
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand
'Cause you're a dream to me, dream to me
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white
Doctor please believe me, I know you won't decieve me, But do these things I'm seein', have any hidden meaning?
What’s that riding on your everything? It isn’t anything at all
I know, it seems that I might have crossed into a dream
'Come down now', they'll say - But everything looks perfect from far away
Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real
We are digging holes to China - Then we pray to our reflections in the water when it rises
This ground is not the rock I thought it to be
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were.
My creation, is it real?
When illusion spin her net, I'm never where I want to be - And liberty she pirouette, when I think that I am free
I can feel no sense of measure, no illusions as we take refuge in young man's pleasure - Breaking down the dreams we make real
It was all a bad dream spinning in your head
If I don't listen to the talk of the town, then maybe I can fool myself
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise, right there in front of everyone's eyes - Greatest magic trick ever under the sun, perfectly executed, skillfully done
Is this just an illusion - That I made inside my head to get me by?
We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
No one to tell us, "no" or where to go, or say we're only dreaming
And as I roll along, I begin to find, things aren't always just what they seem
