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The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.
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All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.
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Culture is your operating system.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
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We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.
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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.
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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
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Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
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It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.
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There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.
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I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.
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Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.
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By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
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