The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
TERENCE MCKENNAOur world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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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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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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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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