Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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