"No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You donâ€™t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courageâ€”courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker."

-- Dennis McKenna

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“By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they become a necessary part of the system, useful so long as they serve to contain the stirrings and strivings of the oppressed. By making the rules and values of their oppressor their own, they separate themselves from the rest of their group and, temporarily at least, assuage the pain of their stigmatized status.”
“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us...”

Source : Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.34, Beacon Press
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
“I haven't had a lot of 'Games Of Thrones' groupies. The fans seem to be really nice. They don't seem that invasive.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.”
“Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.”
“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
“Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.”

Source : "Yotam Ottolenghi's butternut squash and tahini spread recipe, plus batata harra" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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