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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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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 actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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