People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
TERENCE MCKENNATo 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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 don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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 drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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 psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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