The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
TERENCE MCKENNAI don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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