If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe surface of things is not where attention should rest.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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