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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Terence McKenna

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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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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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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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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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 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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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