We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
TERENCE MCKENNACultures are virtual realities made of language.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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.
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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 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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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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