The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
TERENCE MCKENNAShamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Reality is made of words.
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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.
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