The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe’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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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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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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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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 tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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