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.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat 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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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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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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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