There is no knowledge without risk taking.
TERENCE MCKENNAAnd what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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 absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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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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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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