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- I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what…
- We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in…
- The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
- Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
- 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.
- Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.
- How do we fight back? By creating art.
- Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why…
- Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
- Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making…
- As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
- Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
- I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a…
- The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
- The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
- The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
- Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
- I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
- Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
- When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles…
- It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of…
- The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
- If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence…
- Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving…
- A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle