"People are concrescences of ambiguity."
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"Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted."
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"I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness."
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"Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position."
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"You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination."
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"We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat."
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"Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension."
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"We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception."
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"Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts."
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"You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort."
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"A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost."
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"Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place."
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"Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns."
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"I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time."
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"We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation."
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"We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind"
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"Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind."
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"We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future."
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"Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build."
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"Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together."
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