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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

Terence McKenna

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Assumption Clothes Naked Off Prejudice Religion Religious Take
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Civilization Dissolve Ego Hyperspace Other Regularly Repeatedly Self Transcend Unbound
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
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Inside Lock Mystery Riddle
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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Confront Easy Measure Ocean
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Alcoholism Disease Failure Image Self
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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Blowing Made Magic Mind Real Secret Word World
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
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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Created Eras Excellent Genocide Gentleman Gentlemen Manner Most Over Proper Surface Table Tables
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Against Consciousness Culture Expansion Pilot Plot
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.
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Art Dimension Freed Ourselves Void
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Blowing Consumer Create Culture Fetishzes Mania Mind Object People Prevention Silly
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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Ambiguity Beauty Define Life Lying Self Understood
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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Attention Buddhist Control Key One Thing Take
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

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