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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

Terence McKenna

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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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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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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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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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