For all we know, we know nothing.
TERENCE MCKENNAThere is no knowledge without risk taking.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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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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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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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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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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