God Creates Dinosaurs, God Kills Dinosaurs, God

The Minute We Look, We Cease Being Afraid.

It Is Especially Difficult For Modern People To Conceive That Our Modern, Scientific Age Might Not Be An Improvement Over The Prescientific Period.

As The Practical Value Of Altering Consciousness Becomes Recognized, Procedures To Effect These Alterations Will Become Increasingly Ordinary And Unremarkable. The Whole Concept Of Changing States Of Consciousness Will Cease To Have A Threatening Or Exotic Aspect.

Face The Facts, All These Environmental Organizations Are Thirty, Forty, Fifty Years Old. They Have Big Buildings, Big Obligations, Big Staffs. They May Trade On Their Youthful Dreams, But The Truth Is, They're Now Part Of The Establishment. And The Establishment Works To Preserve The Status Quo. It Just Does.

Grant Knew That People Could Not Imagine Geological Time. Human Life Was Lived On Another Scale Of Time Entirely. An Apple Turned Brown In A Few Minutes. Silverware Turned Black In A Few Days. A Compost Heap Decayed In A Season. A Child Grew Up In A Decade. None Of These Everyday Human Experiences Prepared People To Be Able To Imagine The Meaning Of Eighty Million Years - The Length Of Time That Had Passed Since This Little Animal Had Died.