Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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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.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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