“I speak in reference to planetary momentum. I’m ten revolutions around the Sun.”

“They say if you live to be 100 your lucky number goes up by one.”

“In his paper on synchronicity Jung designated number not only as the primal manifestation of the mind and spirit, but also as an unalterable quality of matter. When all its other properties or characteristics such as mass, color, consistency, and so on have been subtracted, he says, the numerical aspect of matter remains the most primitive basic element. This concept has been substantially confirmed by progressive discoveries in modern physics.”

“Almost everyone in rich societies is a destructive consumer. Almost everyone is, in some way, engaged in aggression against the milieu. Destructive consumers constitute a numerical majority. Myth transforms them into a political one. Numerical majorities come to form a mythical voting bloc on a nonexistent issue; ‘they’ are invoked as the unbeatable guardians of vested interest in growth. This mythical majority paralyzes political action. At closer inspection, ‘they’ are a number of reasonable individuals. One is an ecologist who takes a jet plane to a conference on protecting the environment from further pollution. Another is an economist who knows that growing efficiency renders work increasingly scarce; he tries to create new sources of employment. Neither of them has the same interests as the slum dweller who purchases his color TV on time. The three belong no more to a voting bloc that will defend growth than clerks, repairmen, and salesmen are somehow politically homogenized because each fears for his job, needs a car, and wants medicine for his children.”

“Anna Gislén, a Swedish researcher, studied the Sea Gypsies’ ability to read placards under water and found that they were more than twice as skillful as European children. The Gypsies learned to control the shape of their lenses and, more significantly, to control the size of their pupils, constricting them 22 percent. This is a remarkable finding, because human pupils reflexively get larger under water, and pupil adjustment has been thought to be a fixed, innate reflex, controlled by the brain and nervous system.”