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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Terence McKenna

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
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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Anything Become Divorce Fiction Form Hopeless Million People Understood
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 Die Engineer Manufacture Religious Turn World
The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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Astronaut Before Being Fact Human Psychedelic Seen
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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Behaviour Down Everything Illegal Information Model Psychedelics Structure Wrong
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Field Made Meason Photons Quark Reality World
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Being Count Divine Inspirational Life Light
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
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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Engineer Product Psychedelics Terrifying The Message
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
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
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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Alarmed Control Drug Giving Most Npsychedelics People Terror Up
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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Abyss Bed Discover Done Feather Shamanic
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live

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