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...led! The rational analysis of matter has led to the revelation of the irrationality of matter. The attempts to create systems of perfect deterministic...

...eginning with the Romantics, there is a new permission to explore the irrational. This really is the bridge back to the archaic, shamanic function of ...

..., technologies, and refertilizes the human family by this means. It’s irrational, but it’s how it actually happens, and it’s how it’s always happened ...

... that's simply because religion has always been the repository of the irrational intuition. It never said that the irrational intuition is ipso facto ...

... which claim roots in rationalism are actually among some of the most irrational productions uh in the historical continuum. It’s it a-appears that ou...

...sy to do these things. I suppose, maybe I'm too sanguine about it and irrationally so, because when I asked this question of the Mushroom Entity, the ...

...the 20th century has the most spectacular celebratory affair with the irrational since the 16th century. I mean never before had so many prophets, wiz...

...ness of the Goddess and the pushing of science to the point where its irrational foundations become more clear — this is all part of a program of awak...

...at European thought has developed over the past 300 years and the new irrational systems of thought which anthropology cheerfully imported into white ...

...aving religious ideas, but I think they should be clearly labeled as “irrational”, and those people should voluntarily recuse themselves from debates ...

... have passed. That’s the reality of life but we suppress this chaotic irrational side. The genius of Joyce and to some degree although in a more contr...

...op, within a century these uneducated, superstitious people and their irrational religion of magical redemption were hammering at the gates of Rome. A...

...g on - as dramatic a miracle as anyone could imagine. It’s absolutely irrational to not be filled with the fire of consuming hope. You just have to ov...

... we got LSD 0 the schools of modern art that laid great stress on the irrational and the great schools of psychology that extended the boundaries of t...

...tional animals, but for purposes of biology, a whole set a completely irrational programs have been built in that just can take, you know, a professor...

...nce that it will occur. That these uprisings, that these outbreaks of irrational expectations of the millennium are in fact temporal reflections, they...

...stronger, coincidence is getting stronger. The world is becoming more irrational. Science did work better in the 19th century [audience laughter] than...