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"Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed."
"There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about."
"To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds."
"Mind conjures miracles out of time."
"The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world."
"We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery."
"You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness."
"For all we know, we know nothing."
"We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture."
"Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic."
"No one knows enough to worry."
"The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual."
"You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told."
"We live in condensations of our imagination"
"The only real experience that counts, is your own."
"Cultures are virtual realities made of language."
"We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable."
"Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone."
"I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination."
"Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about."