What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

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We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play 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.

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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

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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.

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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

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

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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

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If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

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I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

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