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“Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.”

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A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of…

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“I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement…

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People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that was because capitalism requires more and more things being turned into money - being turned into profit. But that has reached this absurd limit where there's nothing left to turn into…

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Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of…

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I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff…

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Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place…

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If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling…

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Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary…

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I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural psychedelics have,…

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It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest…

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Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and…

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I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness.…

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Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

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As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must…

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What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You…

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It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is…

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There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .…

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The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

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But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We…

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Through Sahaja Yoga what happens to you, that you become a collective personality.

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If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they…

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“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every…

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We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective…

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