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Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. . . . The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

Terence McKenna

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

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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 should you believe in it?

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you. . . Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.

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The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.

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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

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