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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

Terence McKenna

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Apocalypse Blow Blowing Coming Luxury Mind Something
No one knows enough to worry.
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Enough Know No Worry
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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People Perpetual Plant State Want
This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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Abyss Bed Discover Done Feather Shamanic
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Absence Consciousness Crisis Dmt Mind Blow Our World
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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Bad Good Ideology Life One Thinking Toxic
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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Ego Feminine Masculine Tension World
Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Cryin Enough Loud Out Think Waste Worry
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Angel Crisis Free Historical Money Struggle
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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Archetype Chaos Dominant Fera Lost Name Our Our World
The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Absurdity Assertion Evident Exception Self
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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Blowing Made Magic Mind Real Secret Word World
Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Always Authentic Expression Knowm Shamanism
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Field Made Meason Photons Quark Reality World
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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Billion Blowing Civilization Kick Mind People Shoulder Six Stand Themselves
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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Abstraction Barely Earth Flame Flames Look Mind Blowing Much Ourselves Rouse Victim

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