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Terence McKenna

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Imagination Library Real Universal
Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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Behaviour Down Everything Illegal Information Model Psychedelics Structure Wrong
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Alienation Certain Cost Dmt Level Mind Blowing Sanity Society
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Being Count Divine Inspirational Life Light
You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Immortal Live Long
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Against Consciousness Culture Expansion Pilot Plot
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Bad Good Ideology Life One Thinking Toxic
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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People Perpetual Plant State Want
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Call Click Clock Closer Cosmic Existence Planet Process
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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Engineer Product Psychedelics Terrifying The Message
You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Assumption Cultural Die Engineer Manufacture Religious Turn World
To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Act Degree Everything Experience Literally Moment Movement Potential Present Truth
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
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature

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