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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

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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Created Eras Excellent Genocide Gentleman Gentlemen Manner Most Over Proper Surface Table Tables
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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Barrier Dmt Few First Happen might Mushrooms Second
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our World
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Commitment Courage Dream Love Nature Teacher
If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Else Mind Blowing Mushrooms Plan Somebody
You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Assumption Cultural Die Engineer Manufacture Religious Turn World
The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Absurdity Assertion Evident Exception Self
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
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Ability End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
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
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Bad Good Ideology Life One Thinking Toxic
Reality is made of words.
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Made Reality Word
How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Art Back Create Fight Inspirational Life
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
These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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Allies Beauty Dimension Late Mysterious Nearly Understand Understanding
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature
We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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Among Fighting Icon Intelligent Leat led Noble Visionary
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Afraid Culture Emotional Long Psychedelic Suppressed Understand
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Beautiful Duty Human Inside Mind Thing Universe
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Field Made Meason Photons Quark Reality World
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
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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Degree Highest Hubris Money Sea Self Speak Talk Truth
We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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Degree Game Job Player Told Unimportant

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