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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. i am a specialist, god help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original alpha and omega of experience and reality, that reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.
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We Are Effectively Destroying Ourselves By Violence

R. D. Laing
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. i am a specialist, god help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original alpha and omega of experience and reality, that reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.
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