The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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