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.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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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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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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