“As long as we continue to be imprisoned within the corrupt and rancid norms of the intellect, it will be more than impossible to experience that which is not of the mind, that which is not of time, that which is real.”

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology

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Colombian writer 1917–1977

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Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 20