Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat 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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve 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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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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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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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