“Almost every reality you "know" at any given second is a mere ghost held in memory.”

— Howard Bloom

Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.8 Reality is a Shared Hallucination

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American publicist and author 1943

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