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 cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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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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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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