The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
TERENCE MCKENNAAstonishment is the proper response to reality.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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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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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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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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