"Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage."
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"The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization."
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"I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension."
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"Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do."
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"Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal."
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"Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind."
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"What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience."
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"The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder."
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"'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position."
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"To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century."
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"Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society."
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"There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness."
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"History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious."
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"What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds."
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"What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity."
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"Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean."
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"Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates."
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"We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over."
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"If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways."
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"Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole."
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