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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

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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Alarmed Control Drug Giving Most Npsychedelics People Terror Up
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Conclusion Draw Drawing Human Last Long Night
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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Degree Game Job Player Told Unimportant
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Ability End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Everywhere Golden Imagination Pathways
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
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Against Consciousness Culture Expansion Pilot Plot
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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Behaviour Down Everything Illegal Information Model Psychedelics Structure Wrong
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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Art Dimension Freed Ourselves Void
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
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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Clain Empowerment Forward Go Imagination Light Place Sun
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Bad Good Ideology Life One Thinking Toxic
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our World
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Answer Face Mind Blowing Problem
How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Art Back Create Fight Inspirational Life
No one knows enough to worry.
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Enough Know No Worry
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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Actual Delusion English Look Mean Mind
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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Anticipate Away Encode Feel Future Good Memories Pass Real Richness
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
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Call Click Clock Closer Cosmic Existence Planet Process
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
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Concern Government Information Processing Jump Loving Oilligal Psychedelics
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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Confront Easy Measure Ocean
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Alienation Certain Cost Dmt Level Mind Blowing Sanity Society
You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Immortal Live Long

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