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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.

Terence McKenna

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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Anything Artist Burn Country Journey Mankind Self
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Answer Face Mind Blowing Problem
Reality is made of words.
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Made Reality Word
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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Confront Easy Measure Ocean
You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Immortal Live Long
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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Animal Begin Imagination Mind Psychedelic Substance
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Conquer Enemy Expression Nature Raped Teaching Understanding
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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Civilization Create Imagination Names Political Power
This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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Children Last Life Message Moving Nothing Pain
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Conclusion Draw Drawing Human Last Long Night
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 Planet Thinking
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Age Choice Compare Epidemic Free Illusion Liberation Live Nightmare Real
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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Art Become Divorce Hopeless Kind Million Mind Mystery People Some Suspend Two
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature
Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Distinction Mind Native Psychedelic Real Say

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