The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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.
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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.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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