Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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The 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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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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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 do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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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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