Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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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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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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