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Worrying is betting against yourself.

Terence McKenna

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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Anything Artist Burn Country Journey Mankind Self
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Before Behind Secret Unknown
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Art Become Divorce Hopeless Kind Million Mind Mystery People Some Suspend Two
Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Always Authentic Expression Knowm Shamanism
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
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.
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Astronaut Before Being Fact Human Psychedelic Seen
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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Dilemma Doe Expansion Planet Thinking
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live
The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Absurdity Assertion Evident Exception Self
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
I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Believe Brain Consciousness Generated Inspirational Life Television
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
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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Eden People Person Plant Psychoactive Relationship Stories Struggle Woman
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’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
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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Engineer Product Psychedelics Terrifying The Message

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