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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.

Terence McKenna

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
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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Alarmed Control Drug Giving Most Npsychedelics People Terror Up
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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Engineer Product Psychedelics Terrifying The Message
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Conquer Enemy Expression Nature Raped Teaching Understanding
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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Ambiguity Beauty Define Life Lying Self Understood
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
No one knows enough to worry.
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Enough Know No Worry
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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Blowing Made Magic Mind Real Secret Word World
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Ingheritor Million Strive Unspeakable Year
Reality is made of words.
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Made Reality Word
If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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Actual Delusion English Look Mean Mind
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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Clain Empowerment Forward Go Imagination Light Place Sun
Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Always Authentic Expression Knowm Shamanism
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
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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Actual Billionaraire Create Destroy Economic Hundred Masses People Standard Year

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