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You’re immortal as long as you live.

Terence McKenna

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’re immortal as long as you live.
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Immortal Live Long
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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Museums Perceive Perception Psychedelic Recognize Sculpture Something Understood World
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Beautiful Duty Human Inside Mind Thing Universe
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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Alarmed Control Drug Giving Most Npsychedelics People Terror Up
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Knowledge Risk Take
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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Apocalypse Blow Blowing Coming Luxury Mind Something
What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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Barrier Dmt Few First Happen might Mushrooms Second
How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Art Back Create Fight Inspirational Life
Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Distinction Mind Native Psychedelic Real Say
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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Civilization Create Imagination Names Political Power
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Field Made Meason Photons Quark Reality World
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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Angel Crisis Free Historical Money Struggle
Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Dilemma Doe Expansion Planet Thinking
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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Dose Elves Everybody Example Prepare Smoke Sufficient True Want

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