Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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