Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou 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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Reality is made of words.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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