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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

Terence McKenna

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Astonishment Proper

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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Everything Literally Moment
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Answer Mind Blowing
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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Abyss Feather Shamanic
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Rest Thing
No one knows enough to worry.
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Know No
Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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Doe Ever Subjective Well
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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Created Eras Excellent Genocide Gentleman Most Over Proper Table Tables
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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Anything Mankind Self
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Information Processing Jump Loving Oilligal Psychedelics
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Authentic Being Culturally Give Major Real
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Being Count
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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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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Begin Psychedelic Substance
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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Buddhist One Thing Take
You’re immortal as long as you live.

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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Long
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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Anticipate Encode Feel Pass Real Richness

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

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