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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.

— Terence McKenna

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If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

We are being sucked into the body of eternity.

We don't really understand what consciousness is at the really deep levels.

We cannot expect to cross the rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be sufficient.
We have to understand.

New Maps of Hyperspace (1989)

One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

New Maps of Hyperspace (1989)

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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