Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
TERENCE MCKENNAWorrying is betting against yourself.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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