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.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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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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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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