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.
TERENCE MCKENNANature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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 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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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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