The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
TERENCE MCKENNANature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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