There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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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.
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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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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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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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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 Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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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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