The Master Game

It occurs at the moment when just enough alcohol has been taken to affect the thought-controlling part of the brain.

luck.” The greatest danger of all, in his opinion, is a complete loss of belief in what ordinarily passes for reality:

undergo spiritual rebirth, “the rising from the tomb”

about this exceptional state of the spirit and of the senses, which without exaggeration can be termed paradisical as compared with the hopeless darkness of ordinary daily existence, is that it has not been created by any visible or easily definable cause. This acuity of thought, this vigor of sense and spirit, has at all times appeared to man as t

Baudelaire, poor haunted Baudelaire, described the hunger in more detail: Those who are able to observe themselves and can remember their impressions often have occasion to note in the observatory of their thoughts strange seasons, luxurious afternoons, delicious minutes. There are days when a man awakens with a young and vigorous genius. Hardly ha

Creative Psychology involves the highest form of creativity of which man is capable, the creation of a truly inner-directed being out of a helpless other-directed slave.

aurum non vulgi, or the genesis of the homunculus, both of which symbolized the creation of fully conscious, cosmically oriented man out of the ego-centered puppet that goes by the name of man but is really only a pathetic caricature of what man could be.

The basic idea underlying all the great religions is that man is asleep, that he lives amid dreams and delusions, that he cuts himself off from the universal consciousness (the only meaningful definition of God) to crawl into the narrow shell of a personal ego.