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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

Terence McKenna

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Against Blowing Culture Ego Fact Member Mind Neurotic Structure
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Alienation Certain Cost Dmt Level Mind Blowing Sanity Society
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Birth Children Culture Nature World
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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Assumption Clothes Naked Off Prejudice Religion Religious Take
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Adventure Authentic Being Culturally Give Major Real True
Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Always Authentic Expression Knowm Shamanism
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Capitalism Existence Game People Years
You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Immortal Live Long
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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Bad Good Ideology Life One Thinking Toxic
I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Believe Brain Consciousness Generated Inspirational Life Television
To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Act Degree Everything Experience Literally Moment Movement Potential Present Truth
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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Abstraction Barely Earth Flame Flames Look Mind Blowing Much Ourselves Rouse Victim
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Alcoholism Disease Failure Image Self
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Anxiety Money People Think Thinking

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