Michael Patterson
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Totally agree. Makes more sense than saying the medium is the massage.:)"The medium is the message" -- Marshall McLuhan
to me this isn't just a snappy quote, but often really true.
Totally agree. Makes more sense than saying the medium is the massage.:)"The medium is the message" -- Marshall McLuhan
to me this isn't just a snappy quote, but often really true.
Wow! Didn't know that. Of course that makes complete sense now I have revisited Marshall. Kind of silly thing he'd do - and be laughing.Actually, the title was a mistake. When the book came back from the typesetter’s, it had on the cover “Massage” as it still does.
yes. I think we need to redefine breakaway civilization. first off, I think it's an inescapable fact... where there... we just don't quite understand what it is and where it's going.
Wow! Didn't know that. Of course that makes complete sense now I have revisited Marshall. Kind of silly thing he'd do - and be laughing.
Of course the other plausible theory that I tend to support but need to flesh out a little better is that perhaps civilization itself is the first real "breakaway." I don't want to get into too many details since someone I know is writing a book, in part, about this very fact. But even that alone should be enough to ponder. Perhaps leaving the tribal life created a different kind of "connection" with a different kind of consciousness.
It is an understatement to say that in 2012, as soon as my research focus shifted, so did my life. When I began to focus on modern reports of UFO sightings and events, I was immediately immersed in a world where the religious impulse was alive and the formation of a new, unique form of religion was in process. I was observing it as it happened.
Pasulka, D.W.. American Cosmic (p. 10). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
Each of the scientists with whom I engaged was passionately obsessed with his research, but none of them would ever offer conclusions as to what the phenomenon was or where it came from. The suggestion that the phenomenon is the basis for a new form of religion elicited sneers and disgust. To them, the phenomenon was too sacred to become religious dogma.
Pasulka, D.W.. American Cosmic (p. 15). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
[James] is one of the leading scientists in the world, and he had the instruments and the technical skill to determine whether the artifacts were genuinely anomalous.
Pasulka, D.W.. American Cosmic (pp. 23-24). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
Readers may thing she is showing that the scholars at the meeting were objective. They only believe what is proven. But at the same meeting of academics, lack of proof didn't stop them from advocating other unproven hypotheses. Rather than being objective her statement shows the scholars are very, very biased.The standard baseline from which we all functioned was pretty conservative: unless we had proof that it was nonhuman, we would refrain from advocating that hypothesis.
Pasulka, D.W.. American Cosmic (p. 63). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.