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Reality is made of words.

Terence McKenna

The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Behavioral Comox Ego Existence Metadative Override Personality Problem Psyche
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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Billion Blowing Civilization Kick Mind People Shoulder Six Stand Themselves
When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Cultural Inspection Own Psyche Shed
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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Dilemma Doe Expansion Planet Thinking
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Field Made Meason Photons Quark Reality World
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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Civilization Create Imagination Names Political Power
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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Capitalism Existence Game People Years
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
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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Among Fighting Icon Intelligent Leat led Noble Visionary
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
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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Actual Billionaraire Create Destroy Economic Hundred Masses People Standard Year
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
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Alcoholism Disease Failure Image Self
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Everywhere Golden Imagination Pathways
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

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