Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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