How do we fight back? By creating art.
TERENCE MCKENNAOur assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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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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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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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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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.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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