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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.

Terence McKenna

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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Choice Corner Disease Epidemics Famine Fascinate Hippie Nightmare Ourselves Paint Real Taken Triage
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Cannabis Hear Life Like Thing
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
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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Alarmed Control Drug Giving Most Npsychedelics People Terror Up
What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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Barrier Dmt Few First Happen might Mushrooms Second
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
We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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Degree Game Job Player Told Unimportant
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
Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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Deal Doe Ever Experience Science Subjective Well
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Inside Lock Mystery Riddle
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Beautiful Duty Human Inside Mind Thing Universe
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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Abstraction Barely Earth Flame Flames Look Mind Blowing Much Ourselves Rouse Victim
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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Dose Elves Everybody Example Prepare Smoke Sufficient True Want
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
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
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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Billion Blowing Civilization Kick Mind People Shoulder Six Stand Themselves

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