What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

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History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. -Terence McKenna

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The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

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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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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. ― Theodore Roosevelt

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The engineers of the future will be poets. – Terence McKenna

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