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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThis 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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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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