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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.

Terence McKenna

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.
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Imagination Library Real Universal
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
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
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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Degree Game Job Player Told Unimportant
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Ingheritor Million Strive Unspeakable Year
How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Art Back Create Fight Inspirational Life
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Ability End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
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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Allies Beauty Dimension Late Mysterious Nearly Understand Understanding
You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Assumption Cultural Die Engineer Manufacture Religious Turn World
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our World
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Bad Good Ideology Life One Thinking Toxic
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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Dose Elves Everybody Example Prepare Smoke Sufficient True Want
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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Abstraction Barely Earth Flame Flames Look Mind Blowing Much Ourselves Rouse Victim
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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Bright Explore Free Mind People Psychedelic Right Society

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