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• The tremendous population increase has made meditation and psychic perception, things that come naturally to spiritually evolved people, difficult to practice and participate in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Meditation

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• The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Eras, Emotion

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• It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Common Sense, Understanding

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• Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Talking, Development, Able

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• A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lines, Facts, Probability

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• If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Blow, Technology

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

  Carl Jung

  Disappear, Intensity, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (1933). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”

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• All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

  Carl Jung

  Symbolism, Discovery, Doubt

  "The Integration of the Personality". Book by Carl Gustav Jung, p. 72, 1939.

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• Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, People, Magic

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Spiritual, Knowing, People

  "Atom and Archetype" edited by Carl Alfred Meier, translated by David Roscoe, 1992.

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• Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Men, Two, World

  P. D. Ouspensky (2004). “Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World”, p.12, Book Tree

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• The value of dreams, like ... divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message.

  Rollo May

  Dream, Reality, Light

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.106, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

  Warren Farrell

  Daughter, Dad, Father

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

  Carl Jung

  Pregnant

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy”

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• The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'

  Margot Adler

  Drama, Communication, Sea

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• So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."

  Dustin Hoffman

  Valentine, Dark, Thinking

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.

  Peter Blegvad

  Guitar, Typewriters, Drawing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS.

  Vernon Howard

  Self, Sea, Effort

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• I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.

  Howard Hawks

  Gun, Sick, Want

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• As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

  Carl Jung

  Two, People, Giving

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid of the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning one's life and self anew.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Opportunity, Self, Views

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• Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Reality, Omnipotence

  "Manifestoes of Surrealism". Book by André Breton, 1969.

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• Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Loss, Air

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• Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

  Isaac Bonewits

  Art, People, Use

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• There is a sense of urgency and this is a time for teachers and I think that there is this psychic awareness with this new generation of seekers that they are here to teach and so that they really need to wake up fast, much like we did, because we know that we must show up at a very high level and so therefore I think that there is an unconscious sense of urgency like I need to do this and not just for me, but for something greater and they may not be able to put that into words, but they are experiencing it.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Teacher, Thinking, Needs

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