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Terence McKenna103 quotes“Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.”
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna There is no knowledge without risk taking.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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!
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.
Ahmed RashidAhmed Rashid System that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, “leur impose”, Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods.
Adrienne MonnierAdrienne Monnier You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle.
Adel al-JubeirAdel al-Jubeir Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential.
Bob ProctorBob Proctor Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein
