The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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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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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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