Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
TERENCE MCKENNAOur world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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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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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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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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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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