Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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