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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.

Terence McKenna

What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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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 Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Everywhere Golden Imagination Pathways
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
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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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 Away Encode Feel Future Good Memories Pass Real Richness
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.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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All Know Nothing
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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