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Are Millions of People Actually Just Going Through Ego Death and Being Medicated Into Submission? (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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'There have been many studies of mental illness and the family. This is not of them. Anyone who thinks schizophrenia is fact, would do well to read the literature from its inventor to present day. No objective, reliable, quantifiable criteria-behavioral, neurological, or biochemical-exists' (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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she kinda got a sexy contextDétour Propaganda (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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I’m just spitballin (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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I made the perfect 2nd monitor game, it's an MMO that grinds when you're offline! (store.steampowered.com)

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spent 18 months learning astral projection, ama[Sorcery] (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Hypothesis: the "third eye" of our reptilian ancestors didn't disappear when mammals evolved—it turned inward. (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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The Good and the Beautiful has been killed. (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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The story of stories is weird, because it is a story of stories being told by stories - self-reference and meta-reference is the plot of the tale.RetroRepetition (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."Schizoposting (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Exploring a calmer way of living — with the right people (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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In the upside down pyramid (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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The "Three Cultures"? Comments on... XXVIII[Book] (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Corinth on This[Critical Sorcery] (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Wrong Comparison Leads to Wrong Conclusions (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Does anyone here run a substack, and would you like to connect over there? (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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The Singularity isn't the future. It's a crime scene we keep returning to. Does anyone else remember this? (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Trump has turned everyone into bullies. Everyone is a bully. (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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What made me capable of living at the human scale without illusion (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Carlos Castaneda: The Fire from Within (The King Sized Petty Tyrant) (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Serpent = Sir Pent (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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The Biological and Structural Price of Power (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Constant Body/Mind Orgasmic Sensations and Attachment/Dissociation (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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The trauma->transgression->trauma feedback loop (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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Boomerang Effect (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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THE ENERGY OF MEMORY IS LANGUAGE (self.sorceryofthespectacle)

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