"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed by words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large -- this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual."
  --A. Huxley, The Doors of Perception  
     

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."     
--A. Einstein

"Our problem results from acting like cowboys on a limitless frontier when in truth we inhabit a living spaceship with a finely balanced life-support system."      --D. C. Korton

     "Man's fear of the unknown inevitably manifests itself as aggressive posturing against it.  This harsh reality can be observed in present-day society's aversion for psychedelic exploring.  Psychedelic journeys are at times deeply personal, while at the same time, intensely inter-personal.  The gifts one receives while travelling are bountiful, yet elude empirical numbers and calculations; given the proper set and setting, universal truths are revealed.  It is precisely this elucidation of the human spirit that now stands before the crucible of authoritative power.  Bubonic rash of propaganda poisons the collective conscious with lies and fear of punishment for accepting these apples of wisdom, and condemns the vehicles that psybernauts forge their trails with.  The modern day Crusaders inprison and de-moralize seekers of expanded consciousness, well aware that such knowledge gained from the psychedlic experience undermines their own self-righteousness.  The elders forbid any and all experimentation and scientific inquiry into the nature of our consciousness, locking away the keys our minds hold to the doors of perception.  What we have here, my friends, are the eternal bedmates of fear and ignorance, which go by the names of aggression and condemnation.  But to the outright horror of our tyrants, knowledge of this parallel psychedelic dimension is proliferating at an ever-accelerating pace.  We now stand poised and fearless, readt to advance into the great starry night, on this, the eve of a brave new world.  RAVERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!"
                                  --G. Funk

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