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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

Terence McKenna

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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Against Betting Worry Yourself
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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Animal Begin Imagination Mind Psychedelic Substance
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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Confront Easy Measure Ocean
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Afraid Culture Emotional Long Psychedelic Suppressed Understand
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Anxiety Money People Think Thinking
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Against Blowing Culture Ego Fact Member Mind Neurotic Structure
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Answer Face Mind Blowing Problem
No one knows enough to worry.
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Enough Know No Worry
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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Anything Become Divorce Fiction Form Hopeless Million People Understood

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