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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Terence McKenna

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Eden People Person Plant Psychoactive Relationship Stories Struggle Woman
The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Absurdity Assertion Evident Exception Self
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Ability End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Birth Children Culture Nature World
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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Age Choice Compare Epidemic Free Illusion Liberation Live Nightmare Real
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Against Consciousness Culture Expansion Pilot Plot
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Afraid Culture Emotional Long Psychedelic Suppressed Understand
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Always Authentic Expression Knowm Shamanism
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
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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Allies Beauty Dimension Late Mysterious Nearly Understand Understanding
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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Capitalism Existence Game People Years
If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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Actual Delusion English Look Mean Mind

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

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