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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

Terence McKenna

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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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

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