You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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