Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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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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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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