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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?

Terence McKenna

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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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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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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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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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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 knowledge without risk taking.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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