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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

Terence McKenna

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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Art Become Divorce Hopeless Kind Million Mind Mystery People Some Suspend Two
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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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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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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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

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