Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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 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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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