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psyolopher
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Reclaim Your Mind by Terence Mckenna Catalysts to say what has never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language. And whats really important is, I call it, the felt presence of direct experience. Which is a fancy term which just simply means we have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time, where you are now, is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, you are disempowered. You are giving it all away to icons. Icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion. And what is real is you and your friends, your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, and your fears. And we are told no. We're unimportant, we're peripheral, get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Where is that at?
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LSD is a psychedelic substance that causes psychotic behavior in people who have not taken it! (UNKOWN)
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world, you see. (Terence Mckenna)
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. And that beliefs should be put aside, and that a psychedelic society would abandon belief systems [in favor of] direct experience and this is, I think much, of the problem of the modern dilemma, is that direct experience has been discounted and in its place all kind of belief systems have been erected... If you believe something, you're automatically precluded from believing in the opposite, which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of this belief.
(BY TERENCE MCKENNA)
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance
(Aristotle)
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Søren Kierkegaard:
Once you label me you negate me.
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
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Alex Grey
in a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized
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(Unkown)
we do not possess imagination enough to sense what we are missing
"Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach."
-Brian Eno
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LSD is a psychedelic substance that causes psychotic behavior in people who have not taken it! (UNKOWN)
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world, you see. (Terence Mckenna)
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. And that beliefs should be put aside, and that a psychedelic society would abandon belief systems [in favor of] direct experience and this is, I think much, of the problem of the modern dilemma, is that direct experience has been discounted and in its place all kind of belief systems have been erected... If you believe something, you're automatically precluded from believing in the opposite, which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of this belief.
(BY TERENCE MCKENNA)
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance
(Aristotle)
°°°°
Søren Kierkegaard:
Once you label me you negate me.
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
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Alex Grey
in a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized
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(Unkown)
we do not possess imagination enough to sense what we are missing
"Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach."
-Brian Eno
hahahadeamonds wrote:just copped banksys book, on the back..
"theres no way your going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover"
- the metropolitan police
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it .... Voltaire
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you .... Roger Ebert
Anyone complaining he was led astray by others is admitting he has no mind of his own .... Vernon Howard
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psyolopher
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"I love the movies, love 'em. Now, I'm watching Terminator 2 the other day, and I'm thinking to myself: They cannot top the stunts in this film, they cannot top this shit, unless … they start using terminally ill people as stunt people in feature films … well, hear me out, 'cause I know to a lot of you this may seem a little cruel. "Aww, Bill, terminally ill stunt people? That's cruel!" You know what I think's cruel? Leaving your loved ones to die in a hospital room surrounded by strangers. Fuck that! Put 'em in the movies! What, you wanna let your grandmother live out her last days in a sterile hospital room, with translucent skin so thin you can see her last heartbeat work its way down her blue veins? Or do you want her to meet... Chuck Norris?"
Bill Hicks from Totally Bill Hicks.
Possibly the funniest moment in stand-up history.
Bill Hicks from Totally Bill Hicks.
Possibly the funniest moment in stand-up history.

"Oh my God! You best call the doctors, get the ambulances ready 'cause this one is gonna go off!"
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I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
Muhammed Ali
Muhammed Ali
gwa wrote:I have spent 20 quid on food today. I do not need to eat but I can't help myself.
This is fucking shit I have no self control. Someone kill me
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4linehaiku
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Sorry to piss on your parade, but Voltaire pretty much didn't say that.
It's a nice quote though.The most oft-cited Voltaire quotation is apocryphal. He is incorrectly credited with writing, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” These were not his words, but rather those of Evelyn Beatrice Hall, written under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre in her 1906 biographical book The Friends of Voltaire. Hall intended to summarize in her own words Voltaire's attitude towards Claude Adrien Helvétius and his controversial book De l'esprit, but her first-person expression was mistaken for an actual quotation from Voltaire. Her interpretation does capture the spirit of Voltaire’s attitude towards Helvetius; it had been said Hall's summary was inspired by a quotation found in a 1770 Voltaire letter to an Abbot le Roche, in which he was reported to have said, “I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”[3] Nevertheless, scholars believe there must have again been misinterpretation, as the letter does not seem to contain any such quote.[4]
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