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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.

Terence McKenna

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Birth Children Culture Nature World
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Commitment Courage Dream Love Nature Teacher
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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Degree Highest Hubris Money Sea Self Speak Talk Truth
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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Barrier Dmt Few First Happen might Mushrooms Second
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Against Betting Worry Yourself
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Ego Feminine Masculine Tension World
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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Dose Elves Everybody Example Prepare Smoke Sufficient True Want
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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Behavioral Comox Ego Existence Metadative Override Personality Problem Psyche
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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Deal Doe Ever Experience Science Subjective Well
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
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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Archetype Chaos Dominant Fera Lost Name Our Our World
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Call Click Clock Closer Cosmic Existence Planet Process
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Cannabis Hear Life Like Thing
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Imagination Library Real Universal
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live

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