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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Terence McKenna

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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Crisis Free Historical
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Lock Riddle
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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Real Universal
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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Buddhist One Thing Take
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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Ambiguity Self Understood
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Highest Hubris Self
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Hallucinations Nothing Sanction
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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Anything Become Form Hopeless Million Understood
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Answer Mind Blowing
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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Freed Void
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Talking Verbal
If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Else Mind Blowing Mushrooms Plan Somebody
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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Created Eras Excellent Genocide Gentleman Most Over Proper Table Tables
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Alcoholism Image Self
How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Back
You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Assumption Cultural Manufacture Religious

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

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