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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Terence McKenna

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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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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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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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