The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe 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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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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Reality is made of words.
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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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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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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 have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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