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“We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language ... we cannot talk at all except by subscribing to the organization and classification of data which the agreement decrees.”
"The Handbook for the New Paradigm is composed of several volumes of messages telepathically received from an advanced Ultra-Dimensional race. Because the communication was direct, unlike channelled information, there was no need for subjective `interpretation´ nor is the presentation of the information subject to the distortion of personal belief systems of anyone on the planet. The material, presented now in 1999, is intended to lift mankind from the entrapment of the victim consciousness that keeps the level of human experience ensnared in fear and frustration
"For, as matter of fact, painters, even when they study with the greatest skill to represent sirens and satyrs by forms, the most strange and extraordinary, cannot give them natures which are entirely new, but merely make a certain medley of the members of different animals; or if their imagination is extravagant enough to invent something so novel that nothing similar has ever before been seen, and that then their work represents a thing purely fictitious and absolutely false, it is certain all the same that the colours of which this is composed are necessarily real. And for the same reason, although these general things, to wit, a body, eyes, a head, hands, and such like, may be imaginary, a are bound at the same time to confess that there are at least some other objects yet more simple and more universal, which are real and true; and of these just in the same way as with certain real colours, all these images of things which dwell in our thoughts, whether true and real or false and fantastic, are formed."
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