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Terence McKenna

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 Gentlemen Manner Most Over Proper Surface Table Tables
The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Behavioral Comox Ego Existence Metadative Override Personality Problem Psyche
Reality is made of words.
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Made Reality Word
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
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
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Concern Government Information Processing Jump Loving Oilligal Psychedelics
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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Clain Empowerment Forward Go Imagination Light Place Sun
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Art Dimension Freed Ourselves Void
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Anxiety Money People Think Thinking
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Knowledge Risk Take
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Assumption Clothes Naked Off Prejudice Religion Religious Take
Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Always Authentic Expression Knowm Shamanism
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
Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Cryin Enough Loud Out Think Waste Worry
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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Data Datum Experience Felt Immediate Primaries

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