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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

Terence McKenna

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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Art Become Divorce Hopeless Kind Million Mind Mystery People Some Suspend Two
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Against Betting Worry Yourself
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Call Fact Hallucinations Nothing Reality Sanction
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
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
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature
Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Archetype Chaos Dominant Fera Lost Name Our Our World
This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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Abyss Bed Discover Done Feather Shamanic
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
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
We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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Choice Corner Disease Epidemics Famine Fascinate Hippie Nightmare Ourselves Paint Real Taken Triage
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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Attention Buddhist Control Key One Thing Take
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Civilization Dissolve Ego Hyperspace Other Regularly Repeatedly Self Transcend Unbound
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
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

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