"So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions."
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"We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being."
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"I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously."
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"You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation."
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"One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available."
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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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"All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere."
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"[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body."
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"If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating."
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"The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality."
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"The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet."
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"The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing."
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"I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'."
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"The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure."
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"We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma."
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"Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!"
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"We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years."
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"Memory training is great psychedelic training."
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"Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art."
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"If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before."
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