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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

Terence McKenna

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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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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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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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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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