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Quotes from De Abaitua interview — Alan Moore

born 1953 England

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The origin of money is something to do with representational thinking.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

I like a film where you can see every penny of the budget up there on the screen.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

The reason I got into magic was that it seemed to be what was lying at the end of the path of writing.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

I can’t see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don’t think that would be possible.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

There is a channel that I have called the god Mercury, some sort of information source I have named.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

I see magic as a vantage point from which one can look down on the rest of consciousness.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

Annie Besant’s book where she put forward the idea that theosophical mystical energies could be portrayed as colours or abstract shapes was practically the invention of abstract art.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

There is something strange looming on the human horizon. If you draw a graph of all our consciousness, there is a point we seem to be heading towards.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

The twigs will be tied together in a neater and stronger bundle if they are all the same size and length. That’s fascism.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

To me, when we talk about the world, we are talking about our ideas of the world. Our ideas of organisation, our different religions, our different economic systems, our ideas about it are the world.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

The movements of the mind don’t follow any linear pattern, they can’t be explained with a mechanistic, clockwork view.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

The K Foundation are interesting and lively, a good laugh and they mean it.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

There has always been a dance element in my mysticism.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

Things tend to organise themselves. If there is any message from contemporary science, it is surely that.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

It’s only science that cannot consider thought as a real event, and science is not reality. It’s a map of reality, and not a very good one. It’s good, it’s useful, but it has its limits.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

This shows the lengths that hard science will go to to banish the ghost from the machine.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Moore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.