For all we know, we know nothing.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou’re immortal as long as you live.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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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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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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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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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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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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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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Reality is made of words.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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