Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
TERENCE MCKENNABeing imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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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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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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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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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.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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