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History is the siren song of the soul.


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



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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.



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



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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.



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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



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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.

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