Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
TERENCE MCKENNAYour memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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 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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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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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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