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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.

Terence McKenna

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
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
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 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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Created Eras Excellent Genocide Gentleman Gentlemen Manner Most Over Proper Surface Table Tables
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Art Dimension Freed Ourselves Void
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
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
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Ingheritor Million Strive Unspeakable Year
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
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Before Behind Secret Unknown
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 drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Coax Lives Meaning Need Our Live
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
The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Behavioral Comox Ego Existence Metadative Override Personality Problem Psyche
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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Actual Delusion English Look Mean Mind

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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