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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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  Men, Thinking, Understanding

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• My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

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  Ideas, Ego, Enlightenment

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• The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.

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  Reflection, Self, Track

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• I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.

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  Real, Thinking, Offering

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• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

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  Self, Despair, Psychedelic

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• The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

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  Technology, Safety, Imagination

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

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  Heaven, Agendas, Earth

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• Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

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  Culture, Becoming, Language

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• The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

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  Reality, Space, Understanding

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• The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

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  Confusion, Mind Blowing, Dying

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

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  Book, Limits, Occult

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• Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

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  Understanding, Psychedelic, Should

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• The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.

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  Spiritual, People, Intellectual

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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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  Psychics, Mind, Matter

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• Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles.

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  Views, Different, Answers

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• Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

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  Psychedelic, Boundaries, Compounds

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• The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.

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  Mean, Order, Civilization

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• Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

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  Doe, Mathematics, Deeper

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• Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

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  Pain, Culture

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• The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.

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  Ecosystems, Mind, Pipeline

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• Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

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  Spring, Language

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• The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.

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  Vegetables, Broken, Golden

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• The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.

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  Mushrooms, Evil, Littles

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• Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

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  Inspirational, Life, Mind Blowing

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• If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

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  Beautiful, Self, Imagination

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.253, Random House

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