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.
TERENCE MCKENNAPsychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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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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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 terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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