The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
TERENCE MCKENNACultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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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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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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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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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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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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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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