Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
TERENCE MCKENNAIf you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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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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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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