How do we fight back? By creating art.
TERENCE MCKENNAYour 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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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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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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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