Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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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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