Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Reality is made of words.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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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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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