Hakim Bey Quotes
The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.
Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.
the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.
Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!
A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.
Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.
The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.
The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.
