No one knows enough to worry.
TERENCE MCKENNACapitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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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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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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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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