We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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 perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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