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Sexual arousal and penal erections are associated with both altered states of consciousness and sleep.
James David Lewis-Williams
Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?
George Edward Herbert
Rock art sites were symbolic vaginas, and entry into the wall of a rock art site was thus akin to intercourse.
James David Lewis-Williams
If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.
T.E. Lawrence
Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.
James David Lewis-Williams
I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East and Europe.
James David Lewis-Williams
Of valid economics pre-dating the Power Age (steam and electricity), there remains not a vestige. Of valid economics pre-dating the intensive and extensive use of electricity there will soon exist only rags and tatters. We still have to thank Adam Smith for insisting 'Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production;' but the old form of the law of demand and supply is outmoded, since supply has become practically inexhaustible.
Harriet Boyd Hawes
Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.
James David Lewis-Williams
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.
George Edward Herbert
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.
James Henry Breasted
We are not going to reduce energy capture unless catastrophe forces us to—which means that the only way to avoid running out of resources, poisoning the planet, or both, will be by tapping into renewable, clean power.
Ian Morris
Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Poverty is no sin.
George Edward Herbert
It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it explodes in their heads and takes them off to the spirit realms – that is, they enter a state of trance at the far end of the intensified trajectory.
James David Lewis-Williams