“Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.”
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“A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.”
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“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Beatrix’s 2024 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, Travel, cyber-punk, queer, kink, entheogens, addiction, paganism, psychonaut, shamanism, hallucinogens, sexuality, heroin, sex-work, film, sound, bdsm, substance-abuse, noise, and hard-drugs
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