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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.

Terence McKenna

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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Culture Long Psychedelic Suppressed
Reality is made of words.
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Made Word
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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Psychedelics Terrifying The Message
I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Consciousness Generated
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Deaf Mute
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Cannabis Like Thing
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 Encode Feel Pass Real Richness
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 Mankind Self
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our
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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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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Ideology One Toxic
$Terence McKenna Quote - The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.$

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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Fraction Perceive Tiny
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Ego Feminine Masculine Tension
Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Distinction Native Psychedelic Real Say
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Rest Thing

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