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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.

Terence McKenna

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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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