How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat 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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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 that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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The 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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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