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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

Terence McKenna

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
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Absurdity Assertion Evident Exception Self
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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Choice Corner Disease Epidemics Famine Fascinate Hippie Nightmare Ourselves Paint Real Taken Triage
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
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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People Perpetual Plant State Want
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Against Consciousness Culture Expansion Pilot Plot
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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Act Degree Everything Experience Literally Moment Movement Potential Present Truth
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Alcoholism Disease Failure Image Self
This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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Children Last Life Message Moving Nothing Pain
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
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
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Bad Good Ideology Life One Thinking Toxic
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Call Fact Hallucinations Nothing Reality Sanction
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Being Count Divine Inspirational Life Light
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

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