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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

Terence McKenna

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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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Highest Hubris Self
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Apocalypse Blowing Coming Something
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Conclusion Draw Drawing Last 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
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Cannabis Like Thing
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Click Closer Cosmic
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Anxiety Think
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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Culture Long Psychedelic Suppressed
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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Real Universal
If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Else Mind Blowing Mushrooms Plan Somebody
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 Years
The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Everywhere Golden Pathways
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Alienation Certain Dmt Mind Blowing Sanity
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Names Political
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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Anything Become Form Hopeless Million Understood
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Rest Thing

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

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