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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

Terence McKenna

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Become Hopeless Million Some Suspend Two
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Assumption Cultural Manufacture Religious
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Made Meason Photons Quark
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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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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Among Fighting Icon Intelligent Leat led Noble Visionary
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Obligation Out Some
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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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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Data Datum Felt Immediate Primaries
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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Buddhist One Thing Take
To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Everything Literally Moment
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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Archetype Chaos Dominant Fera Name Our Our World
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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Authentic Being Culturally Give Major Real
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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Anticipate Encode Feel Pass Real Richness
The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Absurdity Assertion Evident Self
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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Ambiguity Self Understood
I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Consciousness Generated

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

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