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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.

Terence McKenna

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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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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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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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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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