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Worrying is betting against yourself.

Terence McKenna

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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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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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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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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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