The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
TERENCE MCKENNAThe world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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 ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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