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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

Terence McKenna

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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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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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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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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

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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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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

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