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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.


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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.



You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.



The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.



If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.



As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.



The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation



The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer



I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.



Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.



Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.





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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.



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I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.



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By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.




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