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,
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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
TERENCE MCKENNAOur ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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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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 tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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What 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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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