I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
TERENCE MCKENNAPsychedelics 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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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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