You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
TERENCE MCKENNAThis is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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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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