For all we know, we know nothing.
TERENCE MCKENNAShamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human 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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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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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