The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
TERENCE MCKENNANobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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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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Reality is made of words.
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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 most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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