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The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.
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What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
Terence McKenna
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Time will perfect matter.
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We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
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And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
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Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.
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Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
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Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.
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It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.
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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
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The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
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DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
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I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
Terence McKenna