How do we fight back? By creating art.
TERENCE MCKENNANo one knows enough to worry.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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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 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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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