If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

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I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

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The only real experience that counts, is your own.

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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

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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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