Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
TERENCE MCKENNACulture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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