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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Beautiful Duty Human Inside Mind Thing Universe
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
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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Against Blowing Culture Ego Fact Member Mind Neurotic Structure
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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Eden People Person Plant Psychoactive Relationship Stories Struggle Woman
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Against Betting Worry Yourself
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
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
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Absence Consciousness Crisis Dmt Mind Blow Our World
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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Being Count Divine Inspirational Life Light
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live
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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Actual Billionaraire Create Destroy Economic Hundred Masses People Standard Year
Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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Behaviour Down Everything Illegal Information Model Psychedelics Structure Wrong
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our World
The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Behavioral Comox Ego Existence Metadative Override Personality Problem Psyche
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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Anticipate Away Encode Feel Future Good Memories Pass Real Richness
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Doing Good Nobody Smart Smarter Understanding

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