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.
TERENCE MCKENNABeing imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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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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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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