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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.

Terence McKenna

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
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Conclusion Draw Drawing Human Last Long Night
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Before Behind Secret Unknown
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
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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Attention Buddhist Control Key One Thing Take
This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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Abyss Bed Discover Done Feather Shamanic
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Impose Kind Obligation Out Some
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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Bright Explore Free Mind People Psychedelic Right Society
For all we know, we know nothing.
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All Know Nothing
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Absence Consciousness Crisis Dmt Mind Blow Our World
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Computer Drug Future
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Apocalypse Blow Blowing Coming Luxury Mind Something
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
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
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

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