Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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