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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.

Terence McKenna

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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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People Perpetual Plant State Want
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Reality is made of words.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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
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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Anxiety Money People Think Thinking
If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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