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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.

Terence McKenna

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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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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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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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