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 MCKENNAThe cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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