There is no knowledge without risk taking.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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 surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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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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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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.
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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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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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