If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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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.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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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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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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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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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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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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