The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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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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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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