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"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."
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"Analysis does not transform consciousness."

"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."

"The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware."

"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."

"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."

"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."

"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."

"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."

"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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"Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass."

"A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of everything living and spontaneous. The live human being has moved out of these bodies long ago. But something moved in when the original tenant moved out."

"Two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws."

"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."

"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."

"The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible."
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