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

Terence McKenna

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Beautiful Duty Human Inside Mind Thing Universe
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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Imagination Library Real Universal
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Absence Consciousness Crisis Dmt Mind Blow Our World
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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Dose Elves Everybody Example Prepare Smoke Sufficient True Want
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Art Dimension Freed Ourselves Void
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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Civilization Dissolve Ego Hyperspace Other Regularly Repeatedly Self Transcend Unbound
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Inside Lock Mystery Riddle
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
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Capitalism Existence Game People Years
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
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Call Fact Hallucinations Nothing Reality Sanction
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Concern Government Information Processing Jump Loving Oilligal Psychedelics
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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People Perpetual Plant State Want
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Blowing Consumer Create Culture Fetishzes Mania Mind Object People Prevention Silly

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