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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.

Terence McKenna

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
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
For all we know, we know nothing.
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All Know Nothing
To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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Actual Billionaraire Create Destroy Economic Hundred Masses People Standard Year
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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Civilization Create Imagination Names Political Power
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Call Click Clock Closer Cosmic Existence Planet Process
Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Archetype Chaos Dominant Fera Lost Name Our Our World
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Alcoholism Disease Failure Image Self
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Know Proof Talking Verbal
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Angel Crisis Free Historical Money Struggle
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Assumption Our World
No one knows enough to worry.
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Enough Know No Worry
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Know Other Self Until
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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Museums Perceive Perception Psychedelic Recognize Sculpture Something Understood World
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Commitment Courage Dream Love Nature Teacher
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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Allies Beauty Dimension Late Mysterious Nearly Understand Understanding

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 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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