The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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 drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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