You’re immortal as long as you live.
TERENCE MCKENNACulture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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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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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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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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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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