Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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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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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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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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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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Reality is made of words.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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