Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
TERENCE MCKENNABeauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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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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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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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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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