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      <p ns="0" title="Brandon Scott Gorrell" snippet="...object that was not myself. This all lead to the experience of being high &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; near-anxiety attacks characterized by thoughts like &amp;quot;Everything is not okay&#10;" size="6830" wordcount="1194" timestamp="2015-02-24T21:09:58Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Tom Robbins" snippet="...xibility has reinforced my disposition for detecting screwy humor and deep &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; -- often simultaneously -- in some rather unlikely sources. A professor at &#10;" size="2386" wordcount="383" timestamp="2015-03-07T13:04:55Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Joe Bageant" snippet="...nce you already know. For me, LSD began to power deep meditations upon the &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of Christian symbols, especially of the holy cross. Not motionless sitting &#10;" size="9951" wordcount="1707" timestamp="2015-03-07T15:16:30Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Gaspar Noé" snippet="...ou is beyond the visual aspects of it, what’s the value or philosophical &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of these psychedelic experiences for you?&#039;&#039;&#039;&#10;" size="13426" wordcount="2420" timestamp="2015-03-07T17:44:40Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Neil Peart" snippet="...d back to listen to Moody Blues records, smoke cigarettes, and discuss the &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of life.&#10;...inued to circle back to all that night, and we decided it was the ultimate &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;Meaning&lt;/span&gt; of Life.&#10;" size="2555" wordcount="428" timestamp="2015-03-07T17:59:28Z" />
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