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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

Terence McKenna

These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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Allies Mysterious Nearly
This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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Last Message Moving Nothing
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Thing
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 Member Neurotic Structure
Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Cryin Loud Out Think
When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

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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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Cultural Inspection Own Psyche Shed
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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Authentic Being Culturally Give Major Real
The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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Astronaut Before Being Psychedelic Seen
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Real Universal
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Highest Hubris Self
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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Free Psychedelic
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Information Processing Jump Loving Oilligal Psychedelics
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Conclusion Draw Drawing Last Long

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

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