"Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order."
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"You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise."
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"I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis"
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"This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed."
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"Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred."
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"Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer."
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"I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells."
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"Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction."
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"The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse."
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"You're immortal as long as you live."
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"What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible."
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"Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming."
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"The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together."
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"Only psychos and shamans create their own reality"
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"The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time."
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"The engineers of the future will be poets."
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"The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education."
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"This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level."
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"What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe."
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"The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself."
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