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.
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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Reality is made of words.
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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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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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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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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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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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 drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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