Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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 apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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