You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
TERENCE MCKENNAScience does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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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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