The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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