The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
TERENCE MCKENNANature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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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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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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