Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
TERENCE MCKENNANature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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