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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Terence McKenna

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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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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
I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Believe Brain Consciousness Generated Inspirational Life Television
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Birth Children Culture Nature World
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
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
The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Absurdity Assertion Evident Exception Self
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Inside Lock Mystery Riddle
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Knowledge Risk Take
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
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Anxiety Money People Think Thinking
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
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future

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