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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

Terence McKenna

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Angel Crisis Free Historical Money Struggle
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Degree Highest Hubris Money Sea Self Speak Talk Truth
You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Immortal Live Long
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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Deal Doe Ever Experience Science Subjective Well
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
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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Blowing Consumer Create Culture Fetishzes Mania Mind Object People Prevention Silly
For all we know, we know nothing.
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All Know Nothing
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Inside Lock Mystery Riddle
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Absurdity Assertion Evident Exception Self
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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Eden People Person Plant Psychoactive Relationship Stories Struggle Woman
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Capitalism Existence Game People Years
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.
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Blowing Made Magic Mind Real Secret Word World
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Field Made Meason Photons Quark Reality World
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Doing Good Nobody Smart Smarter Understanding
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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Bright Explore Free Mind People Psychedelic Right Society

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