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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

Terence McKenna

The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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Astronaut Before Being Fact Human Psychedelic Seen
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Adventure Authentic Being Culturally Give Major Real True
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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Anticipate Away Encode Feel Future Good Memories Pass Real Richness
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
For all we know, we know nothing.
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All Know Nothing
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Art Become Divorce Hopeless Kind Million Mind Mystery People Some Suspend Two
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Civilization Create Imagination Names Political Power
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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Dose Elves Everybody Example Prepare Smoke Sufficient True Want
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Conquer Enemy Expression Nature Raped Teaching Understanding
Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Always Authentic Expression Knowm Shamanism
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Against Blowing Culture Ego Fact Member Mind Neurotic Structure
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Eden People Person Plant Psychoactive Relationship Stories Struggle Woman
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Fraction Perceive Tiny World

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