I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
TERENCE MCKENNATo the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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 no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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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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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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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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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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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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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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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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