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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

Terence McKenna

If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Else Mind Blowing Mushrooms Plan Somebody
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Adventure Authentic Being Culturally Give Major Real True
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Act Degree Everything Experience Literally Moment Movement Potential Present Truth
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
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
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our World
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Cannabis Hear Life Like Thing
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Afraid Culture Emotional Long Psychedelic Suppressed Understand
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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People Perpetual Plant State Want
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
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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Engineer Product Psychedelics Terrifying The Message
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 most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Beautiful Duty Human Inside Mind Thing Universe
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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Attention Buddhist Control Key One Thing Take

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