Worrying is betting against yourself.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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 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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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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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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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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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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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