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Heart--Shaped Cross
Knowflake Posts: 10427
From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
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posted May 07, 2008 04:19 PM
 
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Knowflake Posts: 10427
From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
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posted May 07, 2008 06:49 PM
"The psychedelics are a red-hot social issue, ethical issue, whatever the term for it is. And it is precisely because they are deconditioning agents. They will cast doubt in you if you're a Hasidic Rabbi, a Marxist Anthropologist, or an altar boy. Their business is to dissolve belief systems, and they do this very well. And then they leave you with the raw datum of experience. What William James called, in talking of infants, 'a blooming, buzzing confusion'; the raw datum of experience. And, out of that, you reconstruct the world. And you need to understand that it is a dialogue where your decisions, the projection of your grammar onto the intellectual space in front of you, is going to gel into a mode of being. We actually all create our own universe because we are all operating with our own private languages, which are only very crudely translatable into any other person's language."
"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 all systems. Luwig Bertalanffy, who was the inventor of general systems theory, said, 'People are not machines, but in every situation where they are given the choice, they will behave like machines,'. We all fall into patterns. We all then hold those patterns ever more tightly, they cannot be violated. And this happens on the thought level. And we are on the cresting wave of a historical wave of this uptightness that stretches back millenium. And I think that we have now come to the end of this phase."
~ Terence McKenna
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Knowflake Posts: 15020
From: Pleasanton, CA, USA
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posted March 28, 2009 12:14 AM
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