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

Terence McKenna

I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Anxiety Money People Think Thinking
If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Else Mind Blowing Mushrooms Plan Somebody
No one knows enough to worry.
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Enough Know No Worry
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Commitment Courage Dream Love Nature Teacher
These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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Allies Beauty Dimension Late Mysterious Nearly Understand Understanding
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Immortal Live Long
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Ability End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Afraid Culture Emotional Long Psychedelic Suppressed Understand
We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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Among Fighting Icon Intelligent Leat led Noble Visionary
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Degree Highest Hubris Money Sea Self Speak Talk 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
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our World
This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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Abyss Bed Discover Done Feather Shamanic
Reality is made of words.
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Made Reality Word

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