I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
TERENCE MCKENNATo realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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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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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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