The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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What 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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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