Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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 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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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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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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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 do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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