The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
TERENCE MCKENNANo one knows enough to worry.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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