Worrying is betting against yourself.
TERENCE MCKENNANature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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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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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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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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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Reality is made of words.
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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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