The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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Reality is made of words.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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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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