Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
TERENCE MCKENNABeing imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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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.
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