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Marilyn Ferguson

Marilyn Ferguson (April 5, 1938 in Grand Junction, Colorado – October 19, 2008) was an American author, editor and public speaker, best known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy and its affiliation with the New Age Movement in popular culture.

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Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

Boston, Inexperienced, Marijuana, Nine, Subjects, Two

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

Advances, Intuition, Intuitions, Real, Understanding Nature, Ways

The mind aware of itself is a pilot. . . vastly freer than a passenger mind.

Aware, Learning, Mind, Passenger, Teaching, Vastly

Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom of choice.

Cancer, Choice, Dark, Persecution, Proponents, Running

There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

Age, Corporations, Councils, Country, Policy Making, School

Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.

Dream, Serve, Technology, Tools, Unobtainable, Values

General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause and effect cannot be separated. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. Reality will not be still. And it cannot be taken apart! You cannot understand a cell, a rat, a brain structure, a family, a culture if you isolate it from its context. Relationship is everything.

Taken, Simple, Reality, Everything, Interacts, Understand

By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.

Definitions, Event, Events, Leading, Like, Patterns

. . . As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers.

Careers, Dark, Perspective, Regarded, Skepticism, Structure

We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully.

Believe, Know, Knowledge, Open, Reality

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

Assumption, Brain, Complacent, Hope, Men, Understanding

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

Against, Associated, Disturbing, Ideas, Life, Self

Our past is not our potential.

Our Past, Past, Potential

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

Destination, Finals, Journey, Transformation

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

Authority, Birth, Change, Imminent, Self

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

Begins, Love, People, Search, Spiritual

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

Avoidance, Coping, Learning, Strategies, Teaching, Two

We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.

Know, Knows, Leave, Trap, Traps

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Absorbs, Attention, Brain, Consciousness, Effort, Require

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

English, Enough, Funny, Jesus, Kings

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