Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
TERENCE MCKENNAThis 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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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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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 think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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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 assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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