To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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