Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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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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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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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?
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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