Notes on Broca’s Brain by Carl Sagan

3. That World Which Beckons Like a Liberation

THAT WORLDWHICH BECKONS LIKEA LIBERATION one of the all-the great chapter titles February 23, 201940

Einstein described his lifelong quest: “Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation January 21, 201955

23. A Sunday Sermon

It used to be believed that every event in the world—the opening of a morning glory, let us say—was due to direct microintervention by the Deity. The flower was unable to open by itself. God had to say, “Hey, flower, open.” January 16, 2019387

25. The Amniotic Universe

The only alternative, so far as I can see, is that every human being, without exception, has already shared an experience like that of those travelers who return from the land of death: the sensation of flight; the emergence from darkness into light; an experience in which, at least sometimes, a heroic figure can be dimly perceived, bathed in radiance and glory. There is only one common experience that matches this description. It is called birth. plausible but i haven’t see any other discussion of this theory July 22, 2021412