The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow do we fight back? By creating art.
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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.
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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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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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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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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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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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