Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
TERENCE MCKENNAPsychedelics 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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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Reality is made of words.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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