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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

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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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