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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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