The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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