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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThese 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 caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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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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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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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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