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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.
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If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.
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Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.
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Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
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History is rooted in the future
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The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
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In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
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It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.
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Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
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The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
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Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.
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If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.
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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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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.