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Higher State of Mind

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getting started
This puzzle consists of an obscured version of its own complete solution. [...] To get started, solvers should view the Author Notes section, where two properties of the answer (one syntactic and one semantic) are partially visible.
semantic
The semantic part involves three idioms which are similar in meaning (and similar in meaning to the answer).
syntactic
The syntactic approach involves solving three clues and anagramming them. You should be able to determine the likely lengths of the three terms and their first letters.
finishing it off
[T]his puzzle's answer is a phonetic respelling associated closely with a region that inspired a 2009 single that sounds like this puzzle's title.

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