The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Reality is made of words.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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