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.
TERENCE MCKENNAChaos 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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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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