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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

Terence McKenna

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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Believe Brain Consciousness Generated Inspirational Life Television
You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Immortal Live Long
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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Astronaut Before Being Fact Human Psychedelic Seen
Reality is made of words.
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Made Reality Word
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
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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Actual Billionaraire Create Destroy Economic Hundred Masses People Standard Year
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Ability End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Doing Good Nobody Smart Smarter Understanding
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
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Civilization Dissolve Ego Hyperspace Other Regularly Repeatedly Self Transcend Unbound
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Degree Highest Hubris Money Sea Self Speak Talk Truth
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Answer Face Mind Blowing Problem
Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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Dream Grindm Under Impossible Philospher Teacher Really Touch Trick Understood
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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Animal Begin Imagination Mind Psychedelic Substance
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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Civilization Create Imagination Names Political Power
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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