Hakim Bey Quotes
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The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
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Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the…
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The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to…
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Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek…
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The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse out…
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A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence,…
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Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.
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The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.
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Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are…
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To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind…
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The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.
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Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.
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Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
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A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of…
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One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people…
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Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.
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The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
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Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
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The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as…
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Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!
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