Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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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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