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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 McKenna

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Bad Good Ideology Life One Thinking Toxic
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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Blowing Consumer Create Culture Fetishzes Mania Mind Object People Prevention Silly
Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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Dream Grindm Under Impossible Philospher Teacher Really Touch Trick Understood
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Astonishment Proper Reality Response
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
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Knowledge Risk Take
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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Actual Billionaraire Create Destroy Economic Hundred Masses People Standard Year
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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Billion Blowing Civilization Kick Mind People Shoulder Six Stand Themselves
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Caught Enigma Inside Lock Mystery Riddle
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Beautiful Duty Human Inside Mind Thing Universe
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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Act Degree Everything Experience Literally Moment Movement Potential Present Truth
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Assumption Clothes Naked Off Prejudice Religion Religious Take
We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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Degree Game Job Player Told Unimportant
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Absence Consciousness Crisis Dmt Mind Blow Our World
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Ego Feminine Masculine Tension World
Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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Deal Doe Ever Experience Science Subjective Well
Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Cryin Enough Loud Out Think Waste Worry
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Imagination Library Real Universal
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Conquer Enemy Expression Nature Raped Teaching Understanding
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Birth Children Culture Nature World
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Art Become Divorce Hopeless Kind Million Mind Mystery People Some Suspend Two
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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Angel Crisis Free Historical Money Struggle

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