And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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