Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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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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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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