The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
TERENCE MCKENNAAnything 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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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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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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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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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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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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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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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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