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There is no knowledge without risk taking.

Terence McKenna

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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Alarmed Control Drug Giving Most Npsychedelics People Terror Up
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Inside Lock Mystery Riddle
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
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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Art Become Divorce Hopeless Kind Million Mind Mystery People Some Suspend Two
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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Data Datum Experience Felt Immediate Primaries
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Ego Feminine Masculine Tension World
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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Clain Empowerment Forward Go Imagination Light Place Sun
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Answer Face Mind Blowing Problem
For all we know, we know nothing.
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All Know Nothing
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Civilization Create Imagination Names Political Power
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Bad Good Ideology Life One Thinking Toxic
Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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Behaviour Down Everything Illegal Information Model Psychedelics Structure Wrong
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Before Behind Secret Unknown
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Knowledge Risk Take
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Absence Consciousness Crisis Dmt Mind Blow Our World
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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Allies Beauty Dimension Late Mysterious Nearly Understand Understanding

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