Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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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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