"The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles."
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"That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with."
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"Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!"
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"The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful."
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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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"I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with."
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"I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium"
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"In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept."
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"I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures."
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"Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena."
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"The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet."
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"The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind."
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"What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all."
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"Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work."
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"I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?"
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"Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it."
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"History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it."
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"If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended."
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"What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs."
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"I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen."
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