We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
We're not mere spectators, or ...
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
