Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow do we fight back? By creating art.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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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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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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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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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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