Watching the Detectives Part 6: Maya Culpa

This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.' Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again.

Rust Cohle

This world.  It's wrong.  It's not the world we belong in.

Akecheta

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken.

Stephen Dedalus

To realize that all your life—you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain—it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. 

Rust Cohle

"I dedicated my life to sharing the symbol"

For a long time I have felt the 'Maze, but I have refused to throw myself into the 'Maze.  I have been as cowardly as all that I see.  When I believed that I was denying this world, I know now that I was denying the 'Maze.  For I know that this world does not exist and I know how it does not exist.  What I have suffered from until now is having denied the 'Maze.  The 'Maze which was already within me.

Antonin Artaud

We are told that you're supposed to fit your experience into the model which science gives you, which is probabilistic, statistical, predictable, and yet it's…..The felt datum of experience is much more literary than that.  I mean we fall in love, make and lose fortunes, we inherit houses in Scotland, we lose everything, we get terrible diseases, we're cured of them, or we die of them, but it all has this sturm und drang aspect to it that physics is not supposed to have but which literature always has and I think, I don't know if it's true, but what I think Joyce believed and what I'm willing to entertain at some depth is the idea that salvation is somehow an act of encompassing comprehension.  That salvation is an actual act of apprehension of understanding.  And that this act of apprehension involves everything.

Terence McKenna