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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

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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Eden People Person Plant Psychoactive Relationship Stories Struggle Woman
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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Anything Become Divorce Fiction Form Hopeless Million People Understood
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Call Fact Hallucinations Nothing Reality Sanction
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
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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Animal Begin Imagination Mind Psychedelic Substance
The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Behavioral Comox Ego Existence Metadative Override Personality Problem Psyche
Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Distinction Mind Native Psychedelic Real Say
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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Deal Doe Ever Experience Science Subjective Well
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Against Blowing Culture Ego Fact Member Mind Neurotic Structure
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Beautiful Duty Human Inside Mind Thing Universe
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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Imagination Library Real Universal
When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Cultural Inspection Own Psyche Shed
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Angel Crisis Free Historical Money Struggle
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Assumption Clothes Naked Off Prejudice Religion Religious Take
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Answer Face Mind Blowing Problem
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Ingheritor Million Strive Unspeakable Year

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