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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

Terence McKenna

This 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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Children Last Life Message Moving Nothing Pain
Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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Deal Doe Ever Experience Science Subjective Well
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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Imagination Library Real Universal
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
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Eden People Person Plant Psychoactive Relationship Stories Struggle Woman
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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Animal Begin Imagination Mind Psychedelic Substance
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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Bright Explore Free Mind People Psychedelic Right Society
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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Anything Artist Burn Country Journey Mankind Self
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Against Betting Worry Yourself
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 Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Everywhere Golden Imagination Pathways
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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Allies Beauty Dimension Late Mysterious Nearly Understand Understanding
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Inside Lock Mystery Riddle
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Birth Children Culture Nature World
What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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Barrier Dmt Few First Happen might Mushrooms Second
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Blowing Consumer Create Culture Fetishzes Mania Mind Object People Prevention Silly

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