Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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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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