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CD: Purchased or own physical official copy.
Other: Have full album in digital format, CD-R format etc.
Vinyl: Some inherited from my Dad and Grandparents. All others purchased myself.

Most of my lengthier reviews were written when I was 18/19. I'll get round to editing and fixing them up at some point.

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Seek Truth:

• Socrates • Aristotle • Aldous Huxley • Henry Miller • Terence McKenna • Carl Gustav Jung • Marcel Proust • Carl Sagan • Hunter S. Thompson • Bill Hicks • Lao Tzu • Ram Dass • Leo Tolstoy • Frank Zappa • George Orwell • Milton William Cooper • Mohandas Gandhi • Alex Grey • Friedrich Nietzsche • Allen Ginsberg • Philip Schneider • Neil Postman • Gautama Buddha • Webster G. Tarpley • Jesus of Nazareth • J. Krishnamurti • Rik Clay • Arthur Schopenhaue • William S. Burroughs • Robert Anton Wilson • Ken Kesey • H. G. Wells • John F. Kennedy • Malcolm X • Ralph Metzner • Albert Einstein • John Lennon • Doug Stanhope • Martin Luther King • Alan Watts • Ken Kesey • John C. Lilly • Timothy Leary • Dave Chappelle • George Carlin • Nikola Tesla • Daniel Pinchbeck • Wilhelm Reich

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[insight - "There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory." - Neil Postman ||| [insight - "In my opinion young people today, whites, blacks, browns whatever else there is, must realize that they live in a time of revolution, a time of change. Those in power have abused it and there has got to be change. A better world needs to be built and the only way it is going to get built is by extreme methods. I will stand with anyone, I don't care what color you are, as long as you want to change the miserable condition that exists on this earth." - Malcolm X ||| [insight - "Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truth-sayer, and brain specialist, like a reverend waving a gun around. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built." - Tom Waits ||| [insight - "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust ||| [insight - "Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night." - Marcel Proust ||| [insight - "It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques– all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple." - Terence McKenna ||| [insight - "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy." - Neil Postman ||| [insight - "Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio." - Hunter S. Thompson ||| [insight - "The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific ‘truth’ of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow. Man’s ideas change, but not his inherent nature. That remains. So, if the children are monstrous today – even criminal – it is not because their natures have become polluted, but because they have not been taught better, nor disciplined.” - Janet Taylor Caldwell ||| [insight - "We're playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiosity can legitimately send its attention and where it cannot. It's an essentially preposterous situation. It is essentially a civil rights issue because what we're talking about here is the repression of a religious sensibility. In fact not "a" religious sensibility, the religious sensibility. Not built on some con game spun out by eunichs, but based on the symbiotic relationship that was in place for our species for 50,000 years before the advent of history riding priestcraft and propaganda. So it's a clarion call to recover a birthright, however uncomfortable that may make us. A call to realize that life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego and its fear of dissolution in this mysterious mama matrix which is all around us and which apparently extends to infinity and where our historical future actually lies. This is the other thing.." - Terence McKenna ||| [insight - "A truths initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." - Dresden James ||| [insight - "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha ||| [insight - "Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable." - Terence McKenna ||| [insight - "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein ||| [insight - There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that. - Tupac Shakur ||| [insight - "Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis which is essentially different from anything that has been previously experienced. Other societies in the past have changed their social institutions or their religious beliefs under the influence of external forces or the slow development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever consciously faced the prospect of a fundamental alteration of the beliefs and institutions on which the whole fabric of social life rests ... Civilization is being uprooted from its foundations in nature and tradition and is being reconstituted in a new organisation which is as artificial and mechanical as a modern factory." - Christopher Dawson ||| [insight - "The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea." - Max Planck ||| [insight - "Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation." - Terence McKenna ||| [insight - His disciples said to him, "When will the Kingdom come?", "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look here!' or 'Look there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it." - Jesus of Nazareth ||| [insight - "The UFO is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and driven organizations: You have gone far enough. We are going to turn the world upside down. Your science is going to be shown up for what it is, nothing more than a pleasant metaphor usefully extrapolated into the production of toys for healthy children. That's what science is good for. It is not some meta-theory at whose feet every point of view from astrology to acupressure to channeling need be laid to have the hand of science announce thumbs up or thumbs down." - Terence McKenna ||| [insight - "We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley's dog made 12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns." - Tom Waits ||| [insight - "Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter." - Albert Einstein ||| [insight - So crucify the ego, before it's far too late
And leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
So let the light touch you so that the words spill through
And let the past break through bringing out our hope and reason
Before we hide away." - Maynard James Keenan ||| [insight - "All day long we see those commercials, "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" ... And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards! It's okay to drink your drug! We meant those other drugs; those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you. Nicotine, alcohol... good drugs, coincidentally taxed drugs. Hmmm, how does this fuckin' work?" - Bill Hicks ||| [insight - "Remember this: The strongest sign of the decay of a nation is the feminization of men and the masculinization of women. - Janet Taylor Caldwell ||| [insight - "Humor is an admission of ignorance. Ignorance is the precondition for knowledge. And in a sense, to take it to a deeper level, magic is a deeper perception than science. Because science believes that the world is truly there; it is naive in its empiricism. Magic knows that the world is made of language. That the world is the construct of forceful imagination. And the people who don’t know this are walking around in the world of the people who do. Do not lease other people’s linguistic structures and live in them. Build your own virtual worlds. Build your own values and your own house of mirrors." - Terence Mckenna ||| [insight - "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti ||| [insight - "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein ||| [insight - "Obviously Americans are, least of any people in the world, afraid of drugs, because there is a drug store on every corner. So if they so afraid of mind expanding drugs, obviously it's the mind expansion they are afraid of.
We are made afraid of mind expansion by precisely those people who have a vested interest in our minds being quite narrow." - Brother David Steindl-Rast ||| [insight - "People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in." - Ken Kesey
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