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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

Terence McKenna

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Civilization Create Imagination Names Political Power
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Against Betting Worry Yourself
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Apocalypse Blow Blowing Coming Luxury Mind Something
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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Confront Easy Measure Ocean
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Assumption Clothes Naked Off Prejudice Religion Religious Take
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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People Perpetual Plant State Want
Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Dilemma Doe Expansion Planet Thinking
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Capitalism Existence Game People Years
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Birth Children Culture Nature World
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Knowledge Risk Take
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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Behaviour Down Everything Illegal Information Model Psychedelics Structure Wrong
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Answer Face Mind Blowing Problem
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
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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Angel Crisis Free Historical Money Struggle

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