Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
TERENCE MCKENNAAstonishment is the proper response to reality.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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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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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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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’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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