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.
TERENCE MCKENNANobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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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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Reality is made of words.
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