For all we know, we know nothing.
TERENCE MCKENNANature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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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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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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