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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Terence McKenna

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
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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Billion Blowing Civilization Kick Mind People Shoulder Six Stand Themselves
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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Apocalypse Blow Blowing Coming Luxury Mind Something
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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People Perpetual Plant State Want
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Against Blowing Culture Ego Fact Member Mind Neurotic Structure
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
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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Art Dimension Freed Ourselves Void
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Ingheritor Million Strive Unspeakable Year
You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Assumption Cultural Die Engineer Manufacture Religious Turn World
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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Attention Buddhist Control Key One Thing Take
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Capitalism Existence Game People Years
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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Allies Beauty Dimension Late Mysterious Nearly Understand Understanding
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future

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