Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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 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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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 you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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