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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.

Terence McKenna

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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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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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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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Reality is made of words.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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