Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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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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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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