{"quotes":[{"text":"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.","author":"Lester B. Pearson","tags":["1897","1972","19th-century","20th-century","politics","quote"],"id":27544,"author_id":"Lester+B.+Pearson"},{"text":"Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and then extra drip-trays to compensate. From 1968 the Beetle got the right side fuel flap that dodgy people used to break open to steal your gas – or your fuel cap – another hard to find item if lost!","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["1972","and","beetle","cap","compensate","dodgy","drip-trays","gas","hard","in","lost","problems","starting","steal","that","the","to","vents","your"],"id":126874,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"The LSD phenomenon, on the other hand, is—to me at least—more interesting. It is an intentionally achieved schizophrenia, with the expectation of a spontaneous remission—which, however, does not always follow. Yoga, too, is intentional schizophrenia: one breaks away from the world, plunging inward, and the ranges of vision experienced are in fact the same as those of a psychosis. But what, then, is the difference? What is the difference between a psychotic or LSD experience and a yogic, or a mystical? The plunges are all into the same deep inward sea; of that there can be no doubt. The symbolic figures encountered are in many instances identical (and I shall have something more to say about those in a moment). But there is an important difference. The difference—to put it sharply—is equivalent simply to that between a diver who can swim and one who cannot. The mystic, endowed with native talents for this sort of thing and following, stage by stage, the instruction of a master, enters the waters and finds he can swim; whereas the schizophrenic, unprepared, unguided, and ungifted, has fallen or has intentionally plunged, and is drowning.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["1972","drowning","lsd","metaphor","mysticism","schizophrenia","shamanism","yoga"],"id":214458,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}