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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.

Terence McKenna

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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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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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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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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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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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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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