If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
TERENCE MCKENNAThere is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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 assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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