Marilyn Ferguson
Marilyn Ferguson
Marilyn Fergusonwas an American author, editor and public speaker, best known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy and its affiliation with the New Age Movement in popular culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 April 1938
CountryUnited States of America
Marilyn Ferguson quotes about
life self ideas
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
jesus kings evil
If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
healing doors perfect
The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.
patterns definitions revolution
By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.
war ideas people
War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien ideas and alien cultures, who know that all revolutions begin within and that you cannot impose your brand of enlightenment on anyone else.
men effort community
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against the distortion of a great yearning, 'the effort towards community.'
effort brain littles
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
responsibility opportunity disease
Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.
bridges water despair
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.
teaching learning two
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
real science understanding-nature
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking.
giving long people
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.
learning ideas people
Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'
art conscious said
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.