Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
TERENCE MCKENNAI think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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 surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Reality is made of words.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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