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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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