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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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Told Unimportant

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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Allies Mysterious Nearly
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Against Betting
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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Free Psychedelic
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Perpetual
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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Consciousness Generated
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Blowing Consumer Culture Fetishzes Mania Object Prevention Silly
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 Loud Out Think
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Authentic Being Culturally Give Major Real
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Thing
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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Buddhist One Thing Take
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Virtual
You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Assumption Cultural Manufacture Religious
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our
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
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Alienation Certain Dmt Mind Blowing Sanity
The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Absurdity Assertion Evident Self

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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