The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe’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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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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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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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 major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Reality is made of words.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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