People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
TERENCE MCKENNAIf 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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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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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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