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"Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives in the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It was robbed us
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“Many centuries after the Buddha, the Chinese Chan (Zen) patriarch Yunmen (c. 860–949) was asked: “What are the teachings of an entire lifetime?” Yunmen replied: “An appropriate statement.”6 For Yunmen, what counts is whether your words and deeds are an appropriate response to the situation at hand, not whether they accord with an abstract truth.”
― After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age
― After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age
“Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.”
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inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.”
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“In Cosmic Trigger Vol. 1, Wilson wrote about the strangest “X” he’d ever encountered. It appeared one day while he was working in his garden after a powerful peyote trip. With his hands on the earth, he saw movements from the corner of his eye. Wilson turned his head, he saw what looked like a little man with green warty”
― Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson
― Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson
“Wilson has influenced generations of counterculture names and faces, sparked vision quests and self-deprogramming workouts, motivating a secret psychedelic insurrection of punks, Discordians, pagans, Chaotes, acidheads, all dancing to the beat of Wilson’s rousing, intelligent, undogmatic prose.”
― Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson
― Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson
“Being included in a ceremony wasn’t easy, for it was only permitted to enquire about the mushrooms ‘when evening and darkness come and you are alone with a wise old man or woman whose confidence you have won, by the light of a candle held in the hand and talking in a whisper’. The mushrooms themselves had to be picked”
― I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary
― I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary
The Rose of Paracelsus
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Discussion of the book. On the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/304497570894873/) I'm dividing into sections, and maybe chapters, so ...more
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