Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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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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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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