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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Terence McKenna

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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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Names Political
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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Corner Epidemics Famine Hippie Nightmare Real Taken Triage
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Epidemic Free Illusion Liberation Nightmare Real
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Virtual
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Expression Raped
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Apocalypse Blowing Coming Something
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Ego Feminine Masculine Tension
If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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Actual Delusion English Mean
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper
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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Authentic Being Culturally Give Major Real
How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Back
Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Archetype Chaos Dominant Fera Name Our Our World
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Crisis Free Historical
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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Begin Psychedelic Substance
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Ingheritor Million Strive Unspeakable Year

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

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