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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.

Terence McKenna

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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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 drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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