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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

Terence McKenna

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Absence Consciousness Crisis Dmt Mind Blow Our World
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
How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Art Back Create Fight Inspirational Life
You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Immortal Live Long
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 Enough Loud Out Think Waste Worry
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Afraid Culture Emotional Long Psychedelic Suppressed Understand
If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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Actual Delusion English Look Mean Mind
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
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
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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Being Count Divine Inspirational Life Light
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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Billion Blowing Civilization Kick Mind People Shoulder Six Stand Themselves
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
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
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Eden People Person Plant Psychoactive Relationship Stories Struggle Woman
Reality is made of words.
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Made Reality Word

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