The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
TERENCE MCKENNAEvery click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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