The sight of the bird may cause us to feel certain emotions, to hear or remember its song, and even to associate that song with ideas such as nature, hope, freedom, and peace. The more abstract and symbolic the representation, the higher in the nervous system
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Were any of them at that moment staring at the Milky Way, asking the same questions about us as I was about them? If so, then they were looking at our galaxy as it was when the most advanced forms of life on Earth were fish.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
to appreciate time is light is to share a single and universal commonality with the non-human world, as a bridge to para-human consciousness.
Medium • Towards digital psychedelia and the radical dilation of time
Maybe it’s just something I imagine in the last moment before sleep, but I swear what I see, behind a peeled-back corner of the sky, is another layer underneath us, a second, hidden layer, one that is present at every point, and always has been.
Charles Yu • How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
They were in the sky; now they are here. They get into cars. They drive away, rescind a dimension, just like that.