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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.

Terence McKenna

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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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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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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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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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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