If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat 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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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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