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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.

Terence McKenna

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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Civilization Dissolve Ego Hyperspace Other Regularly Repeatedly Self Transcend Unbound
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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Dose Elves Everybody Example Prepare Smoke Sufficient True Want
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Doing Good Nobody Smart Smarter Understanding
Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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Behaviour Down Everything Illegal Information Model Psychedelics Structure Wrong
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
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
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Age Choice Compare Epidemic Free Illusion Liberation Live Nightmare Real
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
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Against Consciousness Culture Expansion Pilot Plot
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
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
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
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Against Betting Worry Yourself

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