Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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