No one knows enough to worry.
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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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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Reality is made of words.
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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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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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