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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.

Terence McKenna

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
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Inside Lock Mystery Riddle
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
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Against Consciousness Culture Expansion Pilot Plot
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
$Terence McKenna Quote - The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.$

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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Fraction Perceive Tiny World
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
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
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
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
This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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Abyss Bed Discover Done Feather Shamanic
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Adventure Authentic Being Culturally Give Major Real True
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our World
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
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
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Against Betting Worry Yourself

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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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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