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

Terence McKenna

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Caught Enigma Lock Riddle

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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Ego Hyperspace Other Regularly Repeatedly Self Transcend Unbound
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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Created Eras Excellent Genocide Gentleman Most Over Proper Table Tables
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Before Behind Unknown
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Highest Hubris Self
No one knows enough to worry.
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Know No
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Alcoholism Image Self
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Lock Riddle
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
Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Dilemma Doe Expansion
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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Real Universal
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
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 tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

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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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Ego Feminine Masculine Tension
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
Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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