There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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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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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Reality is made of words.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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