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What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
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People are concrescences of ambiguity.
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We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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History is the siren song of the soul.
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As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
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The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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What is needed, is an awakening.
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Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
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The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
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There's only the integrity of doing and having done.
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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
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Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.
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Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
Terence McKenna