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“like think about how long people have been tripping and how this one guy is sort of universally known as being the absolute best at capturing it it's wild and I feel like we're on the precipice of yeah I know you had Andrew Gallimor on yeah I read a great book called Alien Information Theory and he you know just as…”
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival ends all war, helps form a world gover…
“this this thing that we think is so important. There's a great book by the great Arthur C. Clark called Childhoods End and he talks about aliens sort of incepting the world through telepathic children and it's so it's again”
The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, la…
“No, it seems to look a lot like that. You know, and then there's the John Marco Allegro, the guy who wrote the sacred mushroom in the cross. The guy who was on the Dead Sea Scrolls Commission who was an ordained minister but also was agnostic.”
"Quantum mechanics is humanity's finest scientific achievement. It explains why the sun shines and how your eyes can see. It's the theory behind the LEDs in your phone and the nuclear hearts of space probes. Every physic…
“Bohr. There's a great book called What Is Real by a guy named Adam Becker about all of this, where Einstein was saying the quantum stuff is too spooky.”