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“This isn’t real. It would be too much.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“The full-blown, the absolute catastrophe would be a true omnipresence of all networks, a total transparency of all data - something from which, for now, computer viruses preserve us. Thanks to them, we shall not be going straight to the culminating point of the development of information and communications, which is to say: death. These viruses are both the first sign of this lethal transparency and its alarm signal. One is put in mind of a fluid travelling at increasing speed, forming eddies and anomalous countercurrents which arrest or dissipate its flow. Chaos imposes a limit upon what would otherwise hurtle into an absolute void. The secret disorder of extreme phenomena, then, plays a prophylactic role by opposing its chaos to any escalation of order and transparency to their extremes. But these phenomena notwithstanding, we are already witness to the beginning of the end of a certain way of thinking. Similarly, in the case of sexual liberation, we are already witness to the beginning of the end of a certain type of gratification. If total sexual promiscuity were ever achieved, however, sex itself would self-destruct in the resulting asexual flood. Much the same may be said of economic exchange. Financial speculation, as turbulence, makes the boundless extension of real transactions impossible. By precipitating an instantaneous circulation of value - by, as it were, electrocuting the economic model - it also short-circuits the catastrophe of a free and universal commutability - such a total liberation being the true catastrophic tendency of value.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“Because blunders were a tributary of spontaneity, and without it, they would vanish like an illusion. In this respect, Actyn might have gone too far, and he might now be entering the arena where all his efforts were automatically sterile. Ever since he had decided to turn all his firepower against Dr. Aira and his Miracle Cures, he had burned through stages, unable to stop because of the very dynamic of the war, in which he was the one who took every initiative. In reality, he had overcome the first stages â€� those of direct confrontation, libel, defamation, and ridicule â€� in the blink of an eye, condemned as they were to inefficiency. Actyn had understood that he could never achieve results in those terrains. The historical reconstruction of a failure was by its very nature impossible; he ran the risk of reconstituting a success. He then moved on (but this was his initial proposition, the only one that justified him) to attempts to produce the complete scenario, to pluck one out of nothingness . . . He had no weapons besides those of performance, and he had been using them for years without respite. Dr. Aira, in the crosshairs, had gotten used to living as if he were crossing a minefield, in his case mined with the theatrical, which was constantly exploding. Fortunately they were invisible, intangible explosions, which enveloped him like air. Escaping from one trap didn’t mean anything, because his enemy was so stubborn he would set another one; one performance sprung from another; he was living in an unreal world. He could never know where his pursuer would stop, and in reality he never stopped, and at nothing. Actyn, in his eyes, was like one of those comic-book supervillains, who never pursues anything less than world domination . . . the only difference being that in this adventure it was Dr. Aira’s mental world that was at stake.
But, according to the law of the circle, everything flowed into its opposite, and the lie moved in a great curve toward the truth, theater toward reality . . . The authentic, the spontaneous, were on the reverse side of these transparencies.”
― César Aira, The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira

“What is the nature of this confusing way station between birth and (usually) death accompanied by obliteration of identity we call home?

Planet, plane, simulation, hallucination, hell, heaven on
earth � The hypotheses as to this realm’s true character are as many as there are bored conspiracy theorists tapping away on crusty laptops in their parents� basements.

But what if the childishly simple answer to our
conundrum is given away in this aphorism popularized in ‘Row Row Row Your Boatâ€�: ‘Life is but a dreamâ€�?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Imagine for a moment that our waking life is truly but a dream, a meticulously crafted simulation of sorts designed to test the limits of our perception and self-awareness.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“What if the world we inhabit—with all its confounding
complexities and contradictions—is nothing more than an elaborate stage set, a grand illusion orchestrated by a poorly understood force? If this were true, how could we possibly know for certain? What signs or signals might betray the actual nature of our world and our place in it?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“A sudden sense of déjà vu, a feeling of being secretly observed, a recurring dream that seems eerily factual. What if these aren’t the misfirings of our own warped brains, random occurrences with no deeper meaning? What if they’re actually subtle hints, whispers from the multiverse urging us to question our reality?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If our senses can so easily deceive us, how can we be confident in our understanding of anything, even our own physical existence?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If we’re indeed, like Neo in THE MATRIX, “living in a dream world,â€� the inevitable questions then become: Can we wake up? If so, how do we wake up? What exactly awaits us if and when we do wake up?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“To transcend this place, whatever, wherever and whenever it is, we must first travel inward through the wrinkles and folds of our own conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds.

In doing so while utilizing specific techniques, it’s possible to amass enough energy, or personal power, to fly outward beyond the confines of this reality construct with our consciousness intact.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“For anyone desiring to go beyond this world’s illusory limits, the most important thing is to avoid accepting anything anyone (including yours truly) asserts as ‘factâ€� without personally testing it with an open mind â€� and heart.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“This world is nothing more or less than an intricate dance of energy, a sea of swirling possibilities where everything is constantly in flux.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls. That’s kindergarten science.

From a shamanic or alchemical perspective, atoms are
more like sentient waves, their intelligently responsive
existence a blur of potential until they magically appear to materialize.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The observer effect puts our everyday perceptions and assumptions in a blender. It dictates—if we’re to be honest with ourselves, sober in our thinking, and not reactionary in our emotions—that the world we see is NOT the ultimate reality, but merely a projection of it.

From this perspective the manifest world is revealed as what Hindu mystics referred to as maya, illusion, the imaginal outpourings of minds—like children naturally playing in magical constructs that seem eminently real—simply doing what minds do.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“As we learn to appreciate the waltz of shadows on the walls of Plato’s cave, we begin to grasp that the solid ‘objectsâ€� we think of as ourselves are merely illusions moving through a greater illusion.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The world can most definitely be changed, but not by using the materialist ways we’ve been taught designed to keep us beating our heads against the walls and bars of the ‘real world.â€�

To change this designedly dysfunctional construct, which our own co-opted creative attention is actually responsible for materializing and maintaining, we must first change ourselves.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality