The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
TERENCE MCKENNAThis is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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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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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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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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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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