When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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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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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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