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Bruno's teachings combined the new science of his time with traditional Cabalistic mysticism.
Everything Is Under Control (1998)
Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes...
Interview in High Times (2003)
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
The major offense of Masonry to orthodox churches is that it, like our First Amendment, encourages equal tolerance for all religions, and this tends, somewhat, to lessen dogmatic allegiance to any one religion.
Everything Is Under Control (1998)
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977)
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)
Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove.
Prometheus Rising (1983)
I don’t think there is, or ever again can be, a cure for unemployment. Unemployment is not a disease, but the natural, healthy functioning of an advanced technological society.
Since many disapprove of this unconstitutional way of silencing heresy, Dr. Reich has remained a center of controversy.
Everything Is Under Control (1998)
Reich was not only thrown in prison, but they chopped up all the scientific equipment in his laboratory with axes and burned all of his books in an incinerator.
The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just another civilization failing … They are the birth-pangs of a cosmic Prometheus rising out of the long nightmare of domesticated primate history.
Prometheus Rising (1983)
Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses — our reality-tunnels — will become.
Quantum Psychology : How Brain Software Programs You and Your World (1990)
Instead of governments we should have contractual associations that you can opt out of if you don't like the way the association is going.
Interview in TSOG (2002)
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
Prometheus Rising (1983)
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Cosmic Trigger II : Down to Earth (1991)
Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977)
Comparative religion and philosophy show that the Thinker can regard itself as mortal, as immortal, as both mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as non-existent (Buddhism).
Prometheus Rising (1983)
Dr. Wilhelm Reich was condemned for unscientific claims by the Food and Drug Administration in 1956 because of his theories about sexual freedom and his discovery of an alleged "orgone" energy.
Everything Is Under Control (1998)
The persons we think we are have been manufactured out of some shotgun wedding of history and and imagination.
The Illuminati Papers (1980)