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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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 world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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